[MD] Romantic/Classic knowledge vs quality

[MarshaV]

Mel,

And while you have constructed a very functional explanation in three 
small paragraphs, it leaves me breathless with its beauty.


Marsha



At 05:11 PM 1/26/2009, Mel, wrote:

>mel:
>A boat builder with whom I used to work
>frequently repeated a phrase: 'beauty is free'.
>The first few times he said it, the timing was
>a mystery to me--Why did he say that, now?
>
>Eventually I got it.  He was prodding me
>towards seeing that how I made the structural
>pieces of the boat look were more important than
>the simple plan-form of structure.  Analogous
>to how different the musical score is from the
>performance.
>
>Inevitably, the 'beautiful' elements found
>efficiencies that the purely functional lacked.
>What seemed an accident or a trick was instead
>a deeped insight.  Whenever I made a part
>more beautiful in appearance, it was also stronger,
>better fit, more efficient, etc.  It was so, because
>I had unknowingly paid attention to more parts
>than simply the abutting or adjacent bits.
>
>thanks--mel







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