The Aesthete

Burning logs and drinking sherry in the youtube era

isn't always easy.

Sometimes we need a little help from Kierkegaard, Irish poets

and sexually frustrated German philosophers.

First, a little something from "Either/Or" The Seducers Diary.

"Today I saw her for the first tme at Mrs Jansen's.

I was introduced.She didn't seem much concerned or take

much note of me. I behaved as unobtrusively as possible to

be the more attentive ... I made a few cool, almost

nonchalant remarks to her which were retuned with

undeserved courtesy. Then they left. I could have offered

to accompany them, but that would have been enough to

mark me down as a ladies' man and I am convinced she

cannot be won in that way."

A Drinking Song

Wine comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That’s all we shall know for truth

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth,

I look at you, and I sigh.

-W.B. Yeats

And maybe we will finish with some Nietzsche

"What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?"

Enough aesthetic banter for one post.

Cheers.