Universal innocence? How perfect!
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Carl Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 2:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MD] Quality is Appreciation in Value... I read this Quote in a book by Ed Abbey, just right after pondering your dance of the out-foxed chimpmunks, Marsha. Schrodinger would, no doubt be proud of the cosmic confluence. "I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey upon one another ... The impression made on a wise man is that of universal innocence. Compassion is a very untenable ground. It must be expeditious. Its pleadings will not bear to be stereotyped." Thoreau On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:07 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings, > > This is the third night in a row, that while reading about Schrodinger's > Kittens (a comedy - my reading it, that is), I have noticed the screams of > the prey. Good for the fox (I'm guessing a fox.) and not so good for the > chipmunk (Again, I'm guessing a chipmunk, or possibly a mouse.). But this > explanation is so subject/object oriented, it is more like a few events > isolated, perceived and described from ever-changing, interrelated, > overlapping processes. Well, the different perspective of the fox and the > chipmunk is interesting. - Good that I perceived the event, or not good > that I perceived the event? That is the question... > > > > Marsha > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of X Acto > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:54 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] Quality is Appreciation in Value... > > Margaret, > > The opposite may be true too, take street trash, frame it and show it at > a promenant art gallery with an outragous price tag and it's 'Art" > > We are trained to see beauty where we expect to see it or experience it, > in a concert hall or an art gallery or the poormans art gallery, the frame > shop. > > > > Last week, I went into town to set some benchmarks for subway contruction > in Phila. The crew chief and I got off at the wrong stop and we had a 12 > block > walk to the site through some rough neighborhoods...I thought it was kinda > neat, > felt like I was in a "Starsky and Hutch" episode..the people were nice > enough, > asked lots of questions and were generally pleasant and fun, my crew chief > was shittn > his pants most of the time, I was enjoying the culture, the scene and the > old architecture > that still dots the cityscape from the guilded age. > It placed my sleepy little isolated old wooded home in an entirely > different > perspective. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Margaret Warren <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 12:26:53 PM > Subject: Re: [MD] Quality is Appreciation in Value... > > > Hi All - Still lurking (sometimes I have time to read the notes) and > occasionally see something like this: > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Perception > > Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man > with > a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time > approx. 2 thousand people went through the station, most of them on their > way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician > playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried > to meet his schedule. > > 4 minutes later: > The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat > and, without stopping, continued to walk. > > 6 minutes: > A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his > watch and started to walk again. > > 10 minutes: > A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid > stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the > child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was > repeated by several other children. Every parent, without exception, forced > their children to move on quickly. > > 45 minutes: > The musician played continuously.. Only 6 people stopped and listened for > a > short while. About 20 gave money but continued to walk at their normal > pace. > The man collected a total of $32. > > 1 hour: > He finished playing and silence took over. No one noticed. No one > applauded, > nor was there any recognition. > > No one knew this, but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the greatest > musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever > written, with a violin worth $3.5 million dollars. Two days before Joshua > Bell sold out a theater in Boston where the seats averaged $100. > > This is a true story. Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station > was organized by the Washington Post as part of a social experiment about > perception, taste and people's priorities. The questions raised: in a > common > place environment at an inappropriate hour, do we perceive beauty? Do we > stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize talent in an unexpected context? > > One possible conclusion reached from this experiment could be this: If we > do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the > world, playing some of the finest music ever written, with one of the most > beautiful instruments ever made.... 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