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Video: Art and book. Part Two: Feeling, Poetry, Love
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We have already talked about books as keepers of wisdom. But if only knowledge could fit between paper pages, would books become what they are for us? We love them not even for what they give us, but for what they awaken in ourselves: feeling, empathy, love. In this review, we will try to understand what books mean not for the mind, but for the soul and heart.
Where Dreams Go
Not just words and lines are hidden under the binding. Reading is not a process of absorbing information, but a flight of thought and imagination following the guide - the author. The book can take us to such distances that one of them will not want to return to the gray everyday world - just sit and read, read fictional stories to the rustle of falling leaves.
The entrance to the book through the looking glass is open to everyone. Of course, this other world would not have arisen if it were not for ours; but this does not diminish its benefit. Would we know who we are if we never looked in the mirror? Only there you can find answers to the Most Important Questions.
Some amazing books cannot be read with impunity at all. An overly busy modern person, opening such a volume, risks suddenly disappearing, dissolving in the interweaving of phrases, and not answering door calls and phone calls until the last page turns over.
But a person always gets out of the book trap better than he was before - wiser, deeper and spiritually rich. Unless, of course, it was a really worthy book.
Poetry of Feelings
Is it possible to describe in words these mystical movements of the human soul, which we habitually call emotions? Is it possible to give a name to the ups and downs of spirit and thought? Is it possible to call them with a word, as if by a wave of the hand? Can. That's what books are for.
Sometimes it seems like a book is your best friend. You understand her, she understands you - isn't this friendship? You empathize with the heroes wading through the plot twists of fate - and in gratitude for this they become more and more like you.
Novels and romance
The best and fullest of human feelings - love - is also closely related to books. After all, the stories of beautiful love, so common in medieval literature, have shaped modern ideas about this feeling. There is no longer Ginevere or Lancelot - and the knights and beautiful ladies are not extinct.
Old chivalric and love "novels" - that is, books in the spirit of the people, in "Romanesque" and not dead Latin - gave rise to that direction in art, which is well known to each of us. It's romance, of course.
In modern language, the words "romantic" and "love" are almost synonymous. We see that our idea of love and its ideal is in any case drawn precisely from books - no matter how indignant the "realists" may be.
You and I know that love has nothing to do with reality. This is just fiction. It can never be proven, tested or substantiated, measured and weighed. You just need to take it to Faith - and only then will the power of this greatest feeling open to the trusting soul.
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