... But what specifically is rarefied about the thoughts, feelings and deeds we’ve been imagining on this bus? Is it the facts of the matter or the state of being in it? Is it the deeds or the feelings? Are the actions and emotions of that situation rarefied because they are about a counterfactually rare world? Or is the world rare, and the situation thus rarefied, because it contains actions and emotions that are themselves rarefied? What is it that we find just Good about all this? ...
How is this essay not but an example of the Good itself? - it’s a spectacular aberration from the mundane reality! There is a LOT in there - like ‘ the mirror hall’ you describe .. reflection of reflection of reflection ... that goes back and forth between the essay and the reader. Brilliantly done.
How is this essay not but an example of the Good itself? - it’s a spectacular aberration from the mundane reality! There is a LOT in there - like ‘ the mirror hall’ you describe .. reflection of reflection of reflection ... that goes back and forth between the essay and the reader. Brilliantly done.