On 7/28/06, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/28/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > May I suggest "holiness" then? Or perhaps "grace"?
>
> I slept over these, but grace and holiness don't sound erotic.
I have in mind a definition of holiness that Eric Gill gave in a reply
to a review of his book, Work and Leisure (1932?). Gill argued that in
humane societies, not ruled by finance, holiness is "a common quality,
a commonplace quality, nothing to write home about or put in glass
cases in museums." Perhaps you're thinking of a more detached,
rarified holiness.
I haven't read Work and Leisure. Capitalism has banished holiness out
of its erstwhile mundane existence, e.g., giving people fewer holidays
than medieval peasants used to have, privatizing religion (along the
line of secular liberalism), etc.
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Yoshie
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