[lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?

Gratitude for the beauty that he perceives, which I may think is downright 
tacky.  Gratitude is something altogether different in any case.  Among other 
things, it's definable, which is to say, consistent from person to person, even 
if the reason for the gratitude might change.



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>From: Eric <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Feb 20, 2007 12:32 AM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Beauty, anyone?
>
>On beauty, Robert writes, "Right. Not only that, but it means anything I 
>want it to mean. This lands us in some difficulty if Ursula wants it to 
>mean something else."
>
>
>It lands you in difficulty if you are trying to describe beauty to 
>others, but it would seem to create no difficulty in your appreciating 
>it. And what is "difficulty"? Does that difficulty have anything to do 
>with beauty, or is the difficulty entirely yours in terms of what you 
>want to "do" with beauty? In your case, what you want to do with beauty 
>seems to involve exact determination and definition free of ambiguity.
>
>On the other hand, if Robert(prime) merely wants to be grateful for 
>beauty, what does it matter if Irene or Eric or Ursula mean something 
>else by the word?
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