Ahab [captain, prophet, madman] tell us how do we know the boat from the fish?
Moby Dick
Because
whatever meaning one can find, however terrifying, is still preferable
to the greater horror that there is nothing out there. Ahab's quest
however manically self-serving and flawed at least offered a sense of
purpose. Every man onboard that ship had at least a single moment in
which he was alive with an overwhelming sense of purpose.
The Sublime compels men to their doom. Enjoy the doom.
First encounter with the sublime, we want to make it into beauty!
We want Eden to exist but we can't live in it?
Because
conceptions of the nature and purpose of art closely parallel
conceptions of self and the world, the primary function of art is to
interpret values. Therefore, aesthetic criticism, when it rises above
mere technical analysis, attempts to understand these values in order to
determine the worth of the interpretation.
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