keannu
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This is quite a phylosophical writing.
By "no self there to meet", is it himself or any universal self?
And what do you mean by "salt of personhood"? Is it something to enhance personhood?
ex)The other day an acquaintance of mine, a sociable and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly 'alone' in New York for an hour or two between appointments. He went to the Whitney Museum and spent the 'empty' time looking at things by himself. For him it proved to be a shock nearly as great as falling in love to discover that he could enjoy himself so much alone.
...He is about to be launched into his own inner space, space as immense,
unexplored, and sometimes frightening as outer space to the astronaut. His every perception will come to him with a new freshness and, for a time,seem startlingly original......
What had he been afraid of? I asked myself. That, suddenly alone, he would discover that he bored himself, or that there was , quite simply, no self there to meet?.....
..."Music I heard with you was more than music." Exactly, And therefore music 'itself ' can only be heard alone. Solitude is the salt of personhood. It bring out the authentic flavor of every experience....
By "no self there to meet", is it himself or any universal self?
And what do you mean by "salt of personhood"? Is it something to enhance personhood?
ex)The other day an acquaintance of mine, a sociable and charming man, told me he had found himself unexpectedly 'alone' in New York for an hour or two between appointments. He went to the Whitney Museum and spent the 'empty' time looking at things by himself. For him it proved to be a shock nearly as great as falling in love to discover that he could enjoy himself so much alone.
...He is about to be launched into his own inner space, space as immense,
unexplored, and sometimes frightening as outer space to the astronaut. His every perception will come to him with a new freshness and, for a time,seem startlingly original......
What had he been afraid of? I asked myself. That, suddenly alone, he would discover that he bored himself, or that there was , quite simply, no self there to meet?.....
..."Music I heard with you was more than music." Exactly, And therefore music 'itself ' can only be heard alone. Solitude is the salt of personhood. It bring out the authentic flavor of every experience....