2 November
From “The Human Condition: A User’s Manual,”
by Arnold Kunst
You’re off to do the culture-vulture thing in Europe? Sounds
wonderful! Let me, if I may, give you a bit of advice: I wish for you to
notice all those benches in all those museums you'll be visiting; sit down in
front of all those Vinus di Milos you're going to see, and let them work their
magic on you as they are meant to. Let their symmetries, their colors, their
textures seep into your pores. You could, of course, catch up on your emails in
that museum but, to be honest, that sounds about as odious as skate-boarding in
a church. Give up managing. Instead, surrender to the genius of the artist, and
let yourself be pliable to his emotional thrust.
Do that and you will come back immeasureably enriched. In fact if you do
it right you will never be the same again. You will know the wisdom of Oliver
Wendell Holmes: ‘A human mind once stretched will never again return to its
original dimensions.’
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