"Going to a grocery, getting up in the morning. . . seeing that our clothes have buttons--are aspects of everyday feeling; but seen from the viewpoint of existence as a whole, they are strange and wonderful. That people should feel warmly familiar, routinely intimate, unsurprisingly comfortable. . . from the viewpoint of time as a whole. . . existence straight--is a grandly amazing state of affairs."
Eli Siegel
in his definition of "Everydayness," from
Definitions and Comment, Being a Description of the World.
(a link to the work itself i was unable to find, however, i ran across this, this and this which might be more than you want to know on Aesthetic Realism.)
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HI there....
you should check out Michael Benedikt's For An Architecture of Reality...
http://www.lumenbooks.org/Old%20Books/reality.html
Thanks, Craig.
The book does sound very very intriguing, especially considering that in one of my past lives i MUST have been an architect, or i wouldn't be so drawn to buildings of all kinds and sorts.
Thanks again for the link - i cannot wait to read the book. Hopefully, more on that later...
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