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Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint!Originally Posted by bengal-stripe
These words, and their corresponding concepts are things you just have to get in the sense that forcibly learning them will never get you anywhere but somewhere rhetorical, and sterile--no meaning at all.Originally Posted by LabelKing
Applies here as well: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.' Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore. Edgar Allan Poe The RavenOriginally Posted by bengal-stripe
It reminds me of when Diane Arbus discussed the ramifications of suicide wherein she stated that suicide was a transcendental choice that should not be the region of psychotic types.Originally Posted by LabelKing
From the Webster's:Originally Posted by Fabienne
I read once that Diane Arbus took a photo of her own suicide in 1971. Not sure if this is true.Originally Posted by Swann
You're right, aesthete connotes someone preoccupied with appearance; however, aesthetic doesn't connote such a preoccupation. Therefore, clarification was necessary. In answer to your later question, I do have the Herkunftswoerterbuch, along with most of the other ten-volume Duden series. Great books.Originally Posted by Teacher
Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint!Originally Posted by bengal-stripe
I feel aesthete as a term, and concept--like the idea of rhetoric--has been debased into something very superficial.Originally Posted by LabelKing
I don't see how it has changed at all. In my 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language (NYC: Harper; 4 volumes), aesthete is defined as One who professes great love for the beautiful, and endeavours to carry his ideas of beauty into practice in dress and surroundings. Unless you're reaching back further, I don't see how this differes from any modern definition of the word.Originally Posted by Teacher
Yes, but these days, aesthete is connotative of something like a metrosexual, whether you want to cite academic contexts or lay ones.Originally Posted by LabelKing
That hasn't been my experience in the least. In fact, the only times I encounter the word is with great reverence, which is clearly not the case with metrosexual (dear God, did I just type that word??).Originally Posted by Teacher