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@KathySaranpa Rilke, Duino Elegies: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.” ?s=20

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 19 May 2021

1/ Beauty, a thread. “Beauty...is the highest integrative level of understanding and the most comprehensive capacity for effective action, enabling us to go with, rather than against, the deepest tendency or theme of the universe.” - Frederick Turner. world3.scribble.com/world3/meme1/conn7.html

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Quoted byToday I learn Wittgenstein allegedly knocked a student unconscious and retired to gardening. I wonder if my posts are starting to move me toward what Wittgenstein moved toward. Or is it possible to let the terror do its work while I remain unmoved by whether people are shattered?Quoted by@culturaltutor end/ Admittedly, none of hypertext's early adopters anticipated how fully the web would also be co-opted by an aesthetics of mendacity. Indeed, a diabolical abuse of power underlying appearances. But I think we can safely assume that beauty ultimately wins the day. Don't you?Quoted by@SophiaCycles I prefer the Mitchell translation: "For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying." ?s=20Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @SophiaCycles Growth, the alchemy we are bound to refuse until we consent to die to a metamorphosis in which our understanding and will are step-by-step defeated by life’s immutable forces; the thrust of vitality at the heart of life, resurrecting us through deeper communion with all that is.Quoted by@SophiaCycles Growth, the alchemy we are bound to refuse until we consent to die to a metamorphosis in which our understanding and will are step-by-step defeated by life’s immutable forces; the thrust of vitality at the heart of life, resurrecting us through deeper communion with all that is.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @psyche_the_mag 2/ @RevDrBarber “We need a worldwide Poor People’s Campaign and a global call to moral revival.” @UniteThePoorQuoted by@psyche_the_mag 2/ @RevDrBarber “We need a worldwide Poor People’s Campaign and a global call to moral revival.” @UniteThePoor