Hi Platt, I've always wanted to read 'The History of Beauty', but haven't yet. Thanks for pointing to the review. Also, just this morning, I listened again to Chapter's 8 & 9 of Lila, so your quotes could be freshly related to the whole chapters.
Marsha On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:10 AM, [email protected] wrote: > 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 ___ 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
