Re: loss of the creature


Subject: Re: loss of the creature
From: Jim Woods (TrlBlzrOne@AOL.COM)
Date: Tue Aug 31 1999 - 18:09:20 EDT


In a message dated 8/31/99 4:04:04 PM !!!First Boot!!!, jcarretta@YAHOO.COM
writes:

> To Percy, the Grand Canyon became just one more symbol of
> 'everydayness'. This was the argument I used with my wife to avoid
> going to the Canyon. I lost.

Well, speaking as one who hiked the canyon, I think it was good you went <G>

Seriously, though, the collapse of any Romantic image is inevitable, whether
it be the Grand Canyon, Yosemite etc....Tourism has been fueled by the lust
for the excitement provided by the exotic/erotic. The secular substitute for
faith. So has academia, at least recently. The last gasp of Romantic
endeavor to transcend the mundane by sheer will power or 'sleight of
conciousness' (drugs, licit/illicit) is expressed in the current search for
'extreme' experiences. Romanticism is dying, but not gracefully or
quietly...the heathen do rage! <G>

Jim



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