beauty will be convulsive

Written by Sadi Ranson-Polizzotti
Published December 03, 2004
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Let's say we fall in love, and in that love we find a person who we think is truly beautiful and we seek to "replicate" them. This means we want to see them, spend time with them, as much time as possible, see their face, take photographs, maybe draw or paint them if we are an artist or whatever, but in any event, we seek exposure to them. So a. meets b. and a and b fall in love and we all know that during those early, giddy stages of love, that it seems that though we logically know that the rest of the world exists, in some ways, it ceases to exist and lovers are always the only two in the world. The Lovers are it and they alone exist in your eyes, while still being in your logical mind aware that other people do exist, yet you cease to care about them, or care about them in a romantic/sexual way.

One may be aware that yes, logically, there are other partners for them out there with whom they could potentially be involved with and perhaps even find beautiful, but the difference now, after falling in love with the object of desire, or object of Beauty (in the interior way, the deeper, more profound way), is that you could care less because you are satisfied with what you have. Anyone who says they are in love and yet they can see real potential with someone else and finds themselves on their way to their lover's abode but smiling at and admiring other women or men along the route is not, if you ask me, truly in love. The connection is not full. It's one thing to know there is beauty in the world - to deny its existence would be futile and silly. But to actually see it and engage with it through eye-glances, flirtations, emotional or physical affairs or affairs of the heart or affairs of any kind, is not in love. It's really that simple. Why we can only love one person in this way I can't say; I do think it's possible to love two people at the same time, but that said, I also believe that the love for each of them is different. I could be wrong: Is it possible to feel romantic love for two people at the same time and in the same way, or will the love for one or the other always be greater at different moments? Is it possible to love exactly the same way to the same degree and simultaneously, and if so, is that "true love" ("Whatever that means…" says Prince Charles who is a supreme ass).

beautiful as that of Lady Diana sitting alone on a bench outside of the Taj Mahal. Elsewhere, Prince Charles was off with his Camilla, and our lovely Diana knew it and was left in India all alone, and so posed in all of her reality of that moment which was forever captured on film by many photographers; she is seated quietly, hands contemplatively on her lap, head down as if in tears or deep thought, and slightly bent at the leg and the waist, like a delicate animal who has either just been born who has given up in surrender and is about to go down. She was, in fact, about to go down and did. It was among the worst times in her life and was the moment before the prophetic shittra hit the fan, yet there is something so hauntingly beautiful about the moment and it's not to do with Lady Diana herself so much, but what she makes us, the viewer, feel, which brings me back around to perception and how we feel true Beauty.

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#1 — December 6, 2004 @ 19:05PM — Robert Nagle [URL]

Trackback doesn't seem to be working. Here's a link to my thoughts on the matter.

#2 — December 6, 2004 @ 19:11PM — Eric Olsen

Aesthetics is my favorite philosophical topic and I waver between believing in a Platonic Beauty and much less satisfying reflexive concepts. Very interesting and lovely as always Sadi.

Robert, Trackback always works, it just doesn't show up on the page until the post is rebuilt - this is a flaw in our current system.

#3 — December 6, 2004 @ 19:18PM — sadi [URL]

thanks, Eric - Robert, i'm looking for your comment now...

Beauty is a great philosophical concept and discussion idea, but i think for me, we have to accept the notion that beauty is subjective , even if it causes a codified set of physical responses, i think it is always something that will ultimately be, in the real world anyway, subjective and not objective, and i think we've proven that time and time again...

I really enjoyed writing this piece, though it's a bit heavier than the usual for me, it was great fun.

Robert - can't access your comments. can you try posting again or shoot over an email.

back to my piece on the Race Riots of London in the Seventies - just posting that now.

rock on all,

sade

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