If Cheerskep can discuss why he only finds Beth. Ninth "nice" then he will partly explain the aesthetic experience. WC
Sent from my iPhone On Dec 19, 2013, at 9:18 AM, [email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 12/18/13 8:09:13 PM, [email protected] writes: > > >> In the simplest way that i can say it, for me, things that i have never >> experienced or have forgotten are things that are more apt to have some >> aesthetic value in me. And realism that i'm familiar with is >> just >> that, like a reaction of "nice to see you again" >> nothing more. > It doesn't quite work that way for me, Mando. Granted, if I'm exposed to a > work repeatedly over a short time, I can become "sated" -- the same way I > can become sated with a favorite food-taste. Given a vacation from the work or > food, I recover something very like the original ecstasy. After such a > vacation from Beethoven's Ninth, I've never returned to it and found it > nothing > more than "nice".
