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Originally Posted by Skip
Therefore I say, don't shy away from the truth and see things are they truly are. For me it doesn't take anything away from a beautiful sunset knowing that it isn't in fact Arien retreating behind the walls of night. Indeed it just adds another dimension to my enjoyment of it, as Nogrod says. As does Arien.
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This is interesting, actually - what
Skip said above made me realise that I don't want to think it as Arien retreating behind the walls of night, no more than I want to think it as something to do with physics and angles. For me, when I see a thing of beauty (be it, for example's sake, sunset) I don't want to analyse it in any way, be in mythical or scientific. Even myths can be what I call killjoys, since they, like science, aim at explaining the world around us, at unravelling the mystery. When I'm watching a sunset, I don't want to analyse anything. I only want to watch, to see only what my eyes see - no Arien, no photones reflected in certain angles, but only the sunset itself. And this is what I understand as seeing things as they truly are: not seeing photones (even though science told us that's what it is about), not seeing Arien, but seeing the sunset.
The same, I think, can be applied to a work of art. I understand people who have a need to explain it, but for myself, I am more content just taking it in as it is, without in-depth analysis. I don't need to analyse why exactly it is beautiful. The beauty, in itself, is enough.