It is a fun exercise to think up different scenarios or experiences that could be elegant. How could this system or institution be elegant? How could my life be?
I like his writing and the way his brain works. He also dialogues, which is fun! The other day on twitter, I tweeted something about his definition of elegance, pertaining to something specific. Within minutes he responded with this:
Cool! Sometimes easier to describe what it (elegance) isn't: confusing, wasteful, ineffective, unnatural, hard to use, hazardous, ugly.
It could be a consuming passion to pursue elegance on every front. Be elegant. Have elegance. Create elegance. Search out the elegant. Crave elegance. Live elegantly.
I've mentioned it before; it is a great paradigm shifting sort of book if you're needing a refreshing tweek.
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I really like carrying around "elegance" today and finding ways to bring it to life. Thanks for this.
Perhaps not describe but certainly elegance of seeing:
-- a line on paper
-- a hand whose fingers are long and tapered
-- a way of walking
-- the balance of a burden on the head
-- the body of an Ethiopian woman
-- the image in a photographer's eye
And, as you note, a way of being.
elegant
late 15c., from M.Fr. élégant (15c.), from L. elegantem (nom. elegans) "choice, fine, tasteful," prp. of eligere "select with care, choose." Elegans was originally a term of reproach, "dainty, fastidious;" the notion of "tastefully refined" emerged in classical Latin.
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i find the word interestng.
and i especially like the part "select with care, choose" in the etymology above.
I like this.
Heaven will be elegant. Our longing for elegance is a longing for heaven.
What could be more elegant than a bird in flight? And so we shall -- fly away and be where every little thing is perfect.
Sometimes the most elegant things are the very simple things ...
Susan, Cassandra, Nancy, Maureen, and Joyce ~ I like what you added. Thanx.
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