Re: comment invited

[Cheerskep]

I agree with William: If we broaden our labeling as   "aesthetic 
experience" to apply it to all sharp, big, memorable experience, we effectively 
decimate the term.
I disagree with Hannah Arendt who asserted all thinking is in words, 
speechless thought cannot exist. But I do believe that "words" can be of value 
in 
trying to convey what's on our minds, in maintaining distinctions in our 
minds. It may be an illusion, but I have the sense I've watched certain "words" 
wrecked in my lifetime by broadening their alleged scope -- e.g. "obscene", 
"awesome", etc. We aren't saving 'aesthetic' but ruining it by stretching 
its use.