[MD] Dynamic Quality as Beauty

[MarshaV]

Hi Platt, 

I've always wanted to read 'The History of Beauty', but haven't yet.  Thanks for 
pointing to the review.  Also, just this morning, I listened again to Chapter's 8 & 9 
of Lila, so your quotes could be freshly related to the whole chapters.   

Marsha 
 
 


On Sep 14, 2010, at 10:10 AM, plattholden at gmail.com wrote:

> All:
> 
> While reading a review of "The History of Beauty" by Umberto Eco, I came across 
> the following:
> 
> " 'Beauty' seems suited to those experiences that stop us in our tracks."
> 
> I immediately thought of:
> 
> "He said, imagine that you walk down a street past, say, a car where someone 
> has the radio on and it plays a tune you've never heard before but which is so 
> fantastically good it just stops you in your tracks." (Lila, 9)
> 
> A few sentences later, the reviewer describe beauty as framing a period in time 
> when . . .
> 
> " . . . before the critical faculties kick in -- when we know there is 
> something beyond the usual twaddle." 
> 
> Which brought to mind Pirsig's:
> 
> "It connoted any phenomenon that transcended the run of everyday experience." 
> In other words, 'Dynamic Quality.' " (Lila, 9) 
> 
> The similarity between experiences of DQ and Beauty have been remarked on a 
> number of times by contributors here. So the similarity shown above is hardly 
> news. Still, I found the meeting of two disparate minds remarkable.and worthy 
> of note.
> 
> The full review can be read at:
> 
> http://www.powells.com/review/2010_09_10
> 
> Platt 	   
> 
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