Ah
Now here we are
Our phones and cars
Our late night bars
Our hopes and fears
And all our tears
Once and a while we don’t recall
Just who we are
Made out of stars
(2/2)
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#Awe
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Extension question 3: “Is the awareness that we have been changed by what we read a Sublime experience? ie recognising this process of change makes us conflate the miracle of change, the genius of the writing, and the sense of our own self as larger, miraculous?”
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Extension question 2: “Is it the experience of seeing ourselves reflected in the other - so the change is that we were alone, but now we feel united, connected, whole?”
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Extension question 1: “What makes us feel different/changed after reading good writing?”
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“The experience of reading good writing can be summed up by the following:
I am the same, I am the same, I am the same - I am different. Discuss.”
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I just read Nick Laird’s poem Up Late. Oh my god. A short English exam to follow…
I hereby formally thank my dog for dragging me up mountainside at sunset in November
@angry_hagfish posted the best example of what she quite rightly calls the unnatural sublime. It's a giant kitchen mixer. In the street.
Hoping that everyone will start throwing more of #TheSublime my way (natural or unnatural)