Even after at least 25 years of music practice and performance, it took a small string quintet at Hampshire College playing Beethoven to bring tears to my eyes for the first time…I wrenched with the pain, suffering, ecstasy and first recognition, all at once.
On Nov 22, 2:51 pm, fran the man <[email protected]> wrote: > On 22 Nov., 06:01, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote:> I share > your idealism Neil… even when it came to Occham….until I > > noticed that when applied to itself, the razor disappears. > > This dialogue between Neil and Orn has set all kinds of ideas sparking > in my mind - I need more time to let many of them work and come to > some sort of fruit. Some brief comments: > > Master William's sharp instrument is a very useful tool. But we should > remain aware of its nature - as a tool - and, as every good handworker > knows, not every tool is appropriate for every occasion. There's a > word Neil has used here a couple of times, "simplexity", which I like. > There is often wonderful complexity in simple things, and simplicity > too in the complex. There is, I hope, some kind of truth to be > obtained through reason (and it is here that Occam's razor works > best). But there are also truths which express themselves in art, > music, literature, poetry. Ginsberg's "Howl" and Joyce's "Ulysses" > come to mind, as do Monet's "Water Lilies," Beethoven's 9th Symphony > and Pink Floyd's "Saucerful of Secrets." Just examples. Life, both > individual and common, is as much an artwork to be experienced as it > is a problem (or problems) to be solved. As Molly has put it (although > the words here are mine) we need to sustain the paradoxes put forward > by not rejecting one in favour of the other. Holding on to the > apparent opposites, while letting everything go. > > Not very clear, I know, but I can't put it better than this at the > moment. As Pepys put it, and so to bed! > > Francis -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=.
