Mel,
And while you have constructed a very functional explanation in three
small paragraphs, it leaves me breathless with its beauty.
Marsha
At 05:11 PM 1/26/2009, Mel, wrote:
mel:
A boat builder with whom I used to work
frequently repeated a phrase: 'beauty is free'.
The first few times he said it, the timing was
a mystery to me--Why did he say that, now?
Eventually I got it. He was prodding me
towards seeing that how I made the structural
pieces of the boat look were more important than
the simple plan-form of structure. Analogous
to how different the musical score is from the
performance.
Inevitably, the 'beautiful' elements found
efficiencies that the purely functional lacked.
What seemed an accident or a trick was instead
a deeped insight. Whenever I made a part
more beautiful in appearance, it was also stronger,
better fit, more efficient, etc. It was so, because
I had unknowingly paid attention to more parts
than simply the abutting or adjacent bits.
thanks--mel
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
(Fernando Pessoa)
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