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Winchester Bay, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 24 October 2013
It is very remarkable that we should be inclined to think of civilization -- houses, trees, cars, etc. -- as separating man from his origins, from what is lofty and eternal, etc. Our civilized environment, along with its trees and plants, strikes us as though it were cheaply wrapped in cellophane and isolated from everything great, from God, as it were. That is a remarkable picture that intrudes on us.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, private note, 1946, in Vermischte Bemerkungen (1977), edited by G.H. von Wright; translated by Peter Winch as Culture and Value, 1980
Outside Winnemucca, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 23 April 2013
Along the Willamette River, Oregon City: photo by Austin Granger, 7 November 2013
St. Francis with his friends, Portland. Sculpture by the late Berthold "Tex" Schwietz, 1988: photo by Austin Granger, 5 November 2013
Via Matris, the Grotto, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 6 March 2012
Church, Alameda: photo by Austin Granger, 14 November 2012
Lincoln City, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 23 October 2013
The Nativity of Jesus, Cloverdale, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 30 August 2012
Air Museum, Tillamook, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 3 April 2012
Sermon on the Mount, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 21 December 2012
Sermon on the Mount, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 23 November 2012
Prayer: photo by Austin Granger, 26 November 2011
The Last Supper, Rhyolite, Death Valley: photo by Austin Granger, 25 February 2011
The Last Supper, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 10 January 2013
There is a place nearby where there is a hole in the cellophane and I am going to go through it now into the sea
ReplyDeleteLove,
Harris
preternatural...that's the word
ReplyDeleteand the sight when the light falls,
falls right
Hey Harris Cubadubaadobe
It's always a wonderful thing when you read a note by Wittgenstein and find he's caught the truth of a thing simply and plainly and you can't look at the World in the same way again.
ReplyDeleteThe futility of the civilising impulse perfectly illustrated by those sparce gardens.
Few things are so pleasant as a gathering of enquiring minds.
ReplyDeleteEvents compel one who has fallen by the wayside to seek solace in such company.
But where is Sanctuary?