William writes:
> If Cheerskep can discuss why he only finds Beth. Ninth "nice" then he > will > partly explain the aesthetic experience. > WC > This is what I wrote: 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". > That was my rather contorted attempt to convey what is the opposite of what William inferred. The contortion came in part from my trying to echo Man do's phrasing: realism that i'm familiar with is > just > that, like a reaction of "nice to see you again" > nothing more. > > In fact, given the needed vacations, my feeling upon hearing Beethoven's Ninth is repeatedly one of the highest music-ecstasies I ever experience. To answer the core of William's question: I don't know why it occasions for me that experience. I'm just aware enough to realize I don't explain a thing with a line like: "I react like that because the symphony has art!"
