So the mind receives the impression of the symmetry of the object. The form of the object, traverses every cranny of the structure. To itself and to other objects, examines the balance of its parts, contemplates The mind considered the object in whole and in part, in relation Sudden synthesis of the faculty which apprehends. That is the first quality of beauty: it is declared in a spimple To apprehend it, you must lift itĪway from everything else: and then you perceive it as one integral thing,

You mind toĪpprehend the object divides the entire universe into two parts, the object,Īnd the void which is not the object. When confronted with any object, hypothetically beautiful. Consider the performance of your own mind You know what Aquinas says: The three things requisite for beautyĪre, integrity, a wholeness, symmetry, and radiance. Walton Litz, James Joyce, Boston: Twayne 1966, p.37.) Note: Stanislaus Joyce explains the epiphanies as little errors and gestures - mere straws in the mind - by which people betrayed the very things they were most careful to conceal. ( My Brother's Keeper, NY 1958, p.124 quoted in A. ( Stephen Hero [1st draft manuscript version of A That it was for the man of letters to record these epiphanies with extremeĬare, seeing that they themselves are the most delicate and evanescent Speech or of gesture or in a memorable phase of the mind itself. He meant a sudden spiritual manifestation, whether in the vulgarity of Many such moments together in a book of epiphanies.

This triviality made him think of collecting The Young Gentleman (inaudible) I (again The Young Lady (drawling discreetly) O, yes I was at the. His quest heard the following fragment of colloquy out of which he receivedĪn impression keen enough to afflict his sensitiveness very severely. Was leaning on the rusty railings of the area. Houses which seem the very incarnation of Irish paralysis. A young lady was standing on the steps of one of those brown brick

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