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Transience
I love the transience of things. Sic transit gloria mundi and all that. Knowing that the flowers in the vase on my table will not last increases my appreciation of them. Knowing that the petty vexation of my morning will not last reduces my annoyance at it.
Everything comes to an end eventually. If we zoom out far enough, anything can appear transient: to a boulder, the life of an oak is transient. Transience sees the difference in timescale between the viewer and the viewed.
I guess the point of ‘sic transit gloria mundi’ is to suggest we raise our eyes from the mundane occasionally, and take a long view of things: if our daily lives vex us, it reminds us they will soon be in the past; if they are occasionally filled with beauty, the evanescence heightens our love of it.
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Transience
I love the transience of things. Sic transit gloria mundi and all that. Knowing that the flowers in the vase on my table will not last increases my appreciation of them. Knowing that the petty vexation of my morning will not last reduces my annoyance at it.
Everything comes to an end eventually. If we zoom out far enough, anything can appear transient: to a boulder, the life of an oak is transient. Transience sees the difference in timescale between the viewer and the viewed.
I guess the point of ‘sic transit gloria mundi’ is to suggest we raise our eyes from the mundane occasionally, and take a long view of things: if our daily lives vex us, it reminds us they will soon be in the past; if they are occasionally filled with beauty, the evanescence heightens our love of it.
As so often, Tom Gauld says it pithier.
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As so often, Tom Gauld says it pithier.
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so this is the explanation for earthquakes. -
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so this is the explanation for earthquakes.@elCelio haha, yes, when continents shiver.
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As so often, Tom Gauld says it pithier.
@Gaolaitch
As an animation: https://youtu.be/NBVCIgfyciA -
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As an animation: https://youtu.be/NBVCIgfyciA@villon Nice!
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