I'd like to start a "meme"
I have no idea who reads this anymore, but I'd like to hear what people think of as the sublime.
Definition:
In aesthetics, the sublime (from the Latin sublimis (exalted)) is the quality of transcendent greatness, whether physical, moral, intellectual or artistic. The term especially references a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.
I would like to hear your examples of the sublime.
For me, it's the eerie glow of the backyard at 1 am under a cover of newly fallen snow.
Friday, February 03, 2006
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I'm trying really, really hard not to think of something nature-related.
But, that's fine really.
For most of the Romantics, the sublime was nature related.
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