Hi Marsha, My daughter gave me the book for Christmas. It's pretty tough going, at least for me. I'd rather experience beauty than read about it. But the book with it's many illustrations is beautiful in itself, even without the prose. Even the review I referred to is too verbose for my liking, but I loved the last line: " 'Man is hungry for beauty. There is a void.' Nine words. Take a moment. Say them aloud. What else is there to be said?"
I think when it comes right down to it, that's why we paint -- to fill the void. Platt On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:17 AM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > 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
