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[wispfox]

This site makes me very, very happy. Math as music, snagged from rosefox. Mmm... the sheer tastyness!

Seems that while *I* am accepting of the friendship lost, my dreams are not. They keep trying to tell me that he'll be back, and that he just needs to figure some stuff out. True though that may possibly be, the sheer *sad* that I am when I wake up from them isn't fun. Stupid dreams.

ladytabitha has a wonderful post about gay marriage, which she apparently got from somewhere else.

xiphias posted about bird intelligence. I especially liked the bits about cell phones at the end. Heh. Silly humans!

Comments

[szasz.livejournal.com]

Math as music! How wonderful! Thank you for sharing.

[starphire.livejournal.com]

Meant to say before - love the userpic.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Weee! So do I. Thank tafkar!

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

I also love the userpic/icon. Ever pic of you I've seen so far is almost painfully attractive.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

almost painfully attractive.

Well, _that_ sounds unpleasant! :)

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Not at all.

Ever been at a museum and seen a piece that just seemed to beg to be touched, but you couldn't because it was either out of reach, behind glass, or just because it was forbidden to touch it? Or have you ever perhaps seen a dessert cart go by with something you wanted to taste, because it looked so good, but you couldn't?

There is in human aesthetic appreciation a similar feeling. It is desire, but not necessarily carnal desire. It is erotic without being overtly sexual. And when it is denied, as it usually is, the feeling is, well, almost painful. But in a good way.

Appreciation of these subtle shades of desire, and their value when denied, is too often cast aside in our world of petty lusts and instant gratifications. To be tantalized is the painful pleasure of every true aesthete, and to tantalize others thus must be the goal of every artist who tries to create anything he or she calls "beautiful".

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

But...

I don't _want_ to seem unapproachable or similar. I mean, it's true that not everyone can "have" me, simply due to connections, time, and similar. But... this description of me as painfully beautiful feels wrong. Both because it's a foreign concept to me, and because... no. Just feels wrong.

[dragontdc.livejournal.com]

Well,, it's not just you. And there are degrees of it.

I was merely trying to explain the concept of beauty as sometimes painful, and how that can be a pleasant kind of pain. In my effort to explain the general idea, I used strong terms, but as with any feeling, it can be anything from barely there to overwhelming.

In your case, it's mild but noticeable. I mean, ultimately, I don't even know you, and I have only seen a few tiny pictures of you. Mild but noticeable is doing pretty good, considering.

And I wasn't implying that you, (or anyone else to whom the feeling applies, and there are many), were even conscious of it, let alone wanting to seem unapproachable. Unapproachble is a word that carries nuance of snobbery, and I'd hesitate to apply it to anyone without being very sure I knew them. My meaning in my explanation was that there is a seperation between observer and subject that creates a dynamic tension, a relationship centered on the act of observation. This is typically called "art".