{"id":13542,"date":"2010-11-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=13542"},"modified":"2010-11-08T10:04:05","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T17:04:05","slug":"what-is-splendor-for-me-its-exuberance-and-indomitability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/13542\/what-is-splendor-for-me-its-exuberance-and-indomitability\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Splendor? For me it’s exuberance and indomitability."},"content":{"rendered":"

Start here: I’m not trying to piss you off. If you don’t want to read what I have to say, don’t. There are thousands of essays on this site, many recent and eye-opening, others older but canonical. You can find what you want here — or you can seek elsewhere. You have no reason to endure something you don’t want to read. You don’t have to, and I don’t want you to.<\/p>\n

Now then:<\/p>\n

This is funny: I live in a state of fairly continuous delight. It’s not always the case, but I would paint my state of mind most of the time — and especially when I’m working at something I love — as exuberance. It can be hugely external, and I know I sometimes wear my wife out when I’m playing with ideas out loud. But it can also be almost searingly apollonian — as here, as it happens — and I can sustain a kind of frenzied concentration for hours on end<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why is it funny — to me, at least? Because it’s just excellent comedy, the radical juxtaposition of two opposites — the expectation that I simply must be angry or dour or cynical and the actual experience of being, for me and for people who spend time with me. I am having fun — deeply satisfying fun — almost all of the time. So much so that I don’t even think about it, except when I consciously direct<\/em> myself to think about it. And that, thinking about the way my mind functions, is a delight for me just by itself.<\/p>\n

Delight, exuberance, searing concentration — these are mothertongue ideas, and this is the job that art does for us: Poets and painters and playwrights and novelists use abstractions in ways that induce us to see not mere words or images but the essence of being itself. We know we are complicit in an illusion — not real life, just a simulation — but we surrender ourselves to it and live it from the inside, at least in imagination.<\/p>\n

I have written hundreds of thousands of words in my life, but I Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Start here: I’m not trying to piss you off. If you don’t want to read what I have to say, don’t. There are thousands of essays on this site, many recent and eye-opening, others older but canonical. You can find what you want here — or you can seek elsewhere. 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