Beauty is relative. Beauty is absolute. It hallucinates playfully in the cerebral recesses of the beholder and languishes in the sanguine synaptic ahA!s of the critics.
Human attention however is that one critical cognitive concept that remains unadulterated since the dawn of sapience. It is always drawn in by willful or accidental differences to the boring norm. The tiger who wants to play with your jugulars, the priest offering eternal salvation, death metal, the legendary dragon who wants to eat your face, the faux pas exposes of the legerdemain of public heroes...the seemingly clever French literary foreign bodies... all draw in and retain our focus as long as they are novel according to recognized intellectuals or cool according to the wanabee punks of the world.
The trigger for this post is this thought holler of Salman Rushdie's
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/whither-moral-courage.html?pagewanted=all
I know he wrote the Satanic verses. No I haven't read it. No I do not approve of the Stygian title. Yes I am willing to reserve judgement till I read it.
I am pretty sure there is an evolutionary reason for this (the why's and how's of paras 1 and 2). Further cyber mumbling pending research. To establish suggestive verisimilitude, I shall also have to dig up pertinent examples from this quarter of millennium. Will this comprehensive incompleteness stop me from posting this title on the social network? I don't think so. This is, I think a corollary of the basic premise of para 2 when applied to an individual universe. More research on this required as well...
Human attention however is that one critical cognitive concept that remains unadulterated since the dawn of sapience. It is always drawn in by willful or accidental differences to the boring norm. The tiger who wants to play with your jugulars, the priest offering eternal salvation, death metal, the legendary dragon who wants to eat your face, the faux pas exposes of the legerdemain of public heroes...the seemingly clever French literary foreign bodies... all draw in and retain our focus as long as they are novel according to recognized intellectuals or cool according to the wanabee punks of the world.
The trigger for this post is this thought holler of Salman Rushdie's
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/whither-moral-courage.html?pagewanted=all
I know he wrote the Satanic verses. No I haven't read it. No I do not approve of the Stygian title. Yes I am willing to reserve judgement till I read it.
I am pretty sure there is an evolutionary reason for this (the why's and how's of paras 1 and 2). Further cyber mumbling pending research. To establish suggestive verisimilitude, I shall also have to dig up pertinent examples from this quarter of millennium. Will this comprehensive incompleteness stop me from posting this title on the social network? I don't think so. This is, I think a corollary of the basic premise of para 2 when applied to an individual universe. More research on this required as well...
