Last week.I woke up from a new defibulator implant which the doctor would not guarantee, just gave hope. Talk about an "aesthetic experience"!!! I'M good for another 90 years,even that equate to 90 days. ab On Dec 11, 2013, at 1:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> In a message dated 12/11/13 4:12:31 PM, [email protected] writes: > > >> I have experience similar feelings in sport watching, and i many >> other situations, even perhaps elections that hang on to the last count. >> > True enough, Mando. You're right to cite political events that often unfold > in such a way as to occasion a feeling that I'm inclined say involves at > least some aspect of "aesthetic". > > Other real life events also come close enough to prompt "artists" to go to > work. Inevitably when an artist has at the material, they change the facts . > CHARIOTS OF FIRE won four Oscars (music, best movie, best screenplay, best > costume design). I enjoyed it immensely, but because I'm a track and field > buff, I was jarred by the amount of sheer invention in the story. Though the > philosopher C.J. Ducasse, a celebrated philosopher of aesthetics seventy > five years ago, in effect rejected "realistic" "drama" as "art", saying the > feeling it occasions is not aesthetic but "vicarious".
