All: While reading a review of "The History of Beauty" by Umberto Eco, I came across the following:
" 'Beauty' seems suited to those experiences that stop us in our tracks." I immediately thought of: "He said, imagine that you walk down a street past, say, a car where someone has the radio on and it plays a tune you've never heard before but which is so fantastically good it just stops you in your tracks." (Lila, 9) A few sentences later, the reviewer describe beauty as framing a period in time when . . . " . . . before the critical faculties kick in -- when we know there is something beyond the usual twaddle." Which brought to mind Pirsig's: "It connoted any phenomenon that transcended the run of everyday experience." In other words, 'Dynamic Quality.' " (Lila, 9) The similarity between experiences of DQ and Beauty have been remarked on a number of times by contributors here. So the similarity shown above is hardly news. Still, I found the meeting of two disparate minds remarkable.and worthy of note. The full review can be read at: http://www.powells.com/review/2010_09_10 Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
