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...is the Elbe River in Europe. It is beautiful. :) It goes from Czech to Germany.



I was reading this songwriters blog today, Ryan Smith. He makes beautiful music, I recommend checking him out if you like folk music, or any light music. Anyways, he's a Christian and his posts are really interesting. His latest blog I am really liking. It talks about this writer Mark Halprin, go read the quote from his book The Pacific. I love that quote, and even the other quote on the blog posted with another book of his. I think I am going to go buy The Pacific. ....actually I think I am just going to copy and paste the quote right here, I just love it!

"Although few will listen to or credit this, I think we are in a lost age, in which holiness and charity have been traded for the victory and penetration of knowledge, though all the knowledge in the world has not brought us any further than where we can go without it even in the outermost halls of grace. I believe that more is to be known and apprehended from the beauty of a face than in delving, no matter how deep, simply into how things work, no matter how marvelous that may be. The greatest substance of the world is immaterial, the province of the heart, and its study cannot be forced or reasoned. Merely to touch upon the edge of things in parsing their mechanics is to forswear their fullness, for the entry to this fullness lies not in science but in art. I cannot prove this, for it cannot be proven, but I claim, assert, and have seen it." -THE PACIFIC & OTHER STORIES

I love that quote. It goes beyond realism and comes in contact with the beauty of life that is a lot of the time forgotten by people obsessed with exploring facts. Today in Philosophy we were talking about this guy Freud. This subject with this quote makes me think about him and his idealogy. This guy is crazy...he says that art is a denial of reality. Basically he believes in three forms on how we think; the id, the ego, and the superego. The ego is our reasoning, which is held inside of our conscience, and the two other forms are id and superego, outside of the conscience. The id is our inner drives for sexuality and aggression; our superego is influence from others. As our ID drives us to desire to experience something, we think of it and if our ego or superego does not deject it, then it will pass through the barrier, enter consciousness and exit as a successful action. Those that do not pass the barrier are called unconscious fantasies, expressed as art. With this idea, anything that is an unconscious fantasy would be a socially unacceptable wish because it did not pass through the judgement of our ego and the superego. Therefore, art is pretty much socially unacceptable, it denies reality, and is a waste of time. What I think is fascinating is that Salvador Dali highly respected Freud. He got into art because of him, and started working with art in the Dada movement, which was basically a movement against art. "Dada was not art — it was 'anti-art'." ...interesting ties.


Freud....nice glasses!