According to James Joyce, "What is audible is presented in time, what is visible is presented in space. But, temporal or spatial, the esthetic image is first luminously apprehended as selfbounded and selfcontained upon the immeasurable background of space or time which is not it."
Some of us, however, are very interested in the 'not it'.
I, myself, for instance, have spent many fruitful hours apprehending the 'not it'.
There'll be a quiz at the end of the class.
For those of you who are still here, you might find Umberto Eco's discussion of this and other matters in 'The Aesthetics of Chaosmos' very interesting.
Here's the menu from the James Joyce Bistro, Victoria , B.C. You'll notice there's some chocolate on it. In my opinion, chocolate is very important when contemplating the 'not it'; in fact, without chocolate, you may not even catch a sighting of the 'not it', let alone have the time to apprehend it.
Here are some more pictures of Sherman tanks, in case you're feeling lonely and blue.
Wholeness, harmony, and radiance.
Pax.
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