TASP 2003 at UT Austin: The Mystery of Creativity



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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
This will probably not be helpful but I think physical beauty is often in perceptions, basically a girl is much hotter if she thinks she is than if she doesn't, except in those rare cases where positive thinking is not enough.  Also, doesn't mystery add to beauty?  In a book I'm reading the author commentedhow an idea took hold out of the "force of its strangeness more than any recommending feature" (referring to Schweitzer's Jesus).  These are subjective criteria.  John, I Kant remember.  Sorry, it was irresistible.  I knew this wouldn't be helpful.

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[ recommended for discussion ]
Existentialism is A Humanism, Essay by Sarte
preface to the lyrical ballads
the trial
heidegger's what calls for thinking
When Life Almost Died (deals with the Permian mass Extinction)
elizabeth costello
the god of small things
jung's aion
foucault's pendulum
coetzee's nobel acceptance speech
faulkner's nobel acceptance speech
koestler's The Act of Creation: part one, the jester
my mother and the roomer
Tao, the Greeks, and other important things
rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead

endgame
the book of job
Trilobites
joseph campbell