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?”
#poetry #literature #thesublime
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?”
#poetry #literature #thesublime
Extension question 1: “What makes us feel different/changed after reading good writing?”
#poetry #literature #thesublime
“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…
Maria Popova in her brilliant website The Marginalian, dispensing drops of gold from Mary Shelley's writing:
#TheSublime
Some interests / #tags that apply to me:
#Writer #WritingCommunity #neurodivergent #ASD #ChronicIllness #BookNerd #Bi #philosophy #liminal #mythology #SpeculativeFiction #surrealism #magicalrealism #fabulism #forests #nature #thesublime #fashion (I am less into what's current in fashion and more into my own weird princess/punk, forest creature, fairytale, victorian vibes & because I'm #actuallyautistic I cherish and wear my same clothes for decades and weep when they wear out 😂) #meaning & #meaningfulness etc.
#tags #writer #WritingCommunity #neurodivergent #ASD #ChronicIllness #booknerd #bi #philosophy #liminal #mythology #SpeculativeFiction #surrealism #magicalrealism #fabulism #forests #nature #thesublime #fashion #actuallyautistic #meaning #meaningfulness
@angry_hagfish I started a request for #TheSublime on zirk.us...maybe more will start coming out of the woodwork here?? Hopefully both the natural and the unnatural versions..