There are many hours in this hour; some are lost or half-hidden; some point to you, others do not. The directions a life can take. Others have stood here in this place. We change places but sit at the same table. Time is a box, a door, but there is no key, there is no "in fullness of time".
"If a wound hath befallen you, it has befallen others before you."
You stand on the edge of the field, past the cluster of trees and their green, wooded shade, the Roding murmuring behind you, quietly looking above at the marvelous passing grey clouds, the sky becoming brighter by the minute. This play of light and shadows is life itself, one indistinguishable whole-and yet still incomplete, still full of incomprehension. This local patch, this small corner of the world, below what seems like an impersonal, universal system above, is a dense knot of associations.
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'In most healthy societies religion and aesthetic life were inextricably intertwined... what happens to art when the hegemonising force of a religious world view, and feelings, is dissipated?
Art does not prosper if it is separated from religion for long.
The great cathedrals were, in effect, symbolic shelters within which all the major and minor arts merged into one total art, to the glory of God, and for the consolation of man.
Gothic architecture, in both its ornamental detail and its structural brilliance, is a material elaboration of Christian belief.'
---Peter Fuller.
"If a wound hath befallen you, it has befallen others before you."
You stand on the edge of the field, past the cluster of trees and their green, wooded shade, the Roding murmuring behind you, quietly looking above at the marvelous passing grey clouds, the sky becoming brighter by the minute. This play of light and shadows is life itself, one indistinguishable whole-and yet still incomplete, still full of incomprehension. This local patch, this small corner of the world, below what seems like an impersonal, universal system above, is a dense knot of associations.
~~
'In most healthy societies religion and aesthetic life were inextricably intertwined... what happens to art when the hegemonising force of a religious world view, and feelings, is dissipated?
Art does not prosper if it is separated from religion for long.
The great cathedrals were, in effect, symbolic shelters within which all the major and minor arts merged into one total art, to the glory of God, and for the consolation of man.
Gothic architecture, in both its ornamental detail and its structural brilliance, is a material elaboration of Christian belief.'
---Peter Fuller.
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