He stands with his hands in his pockets, well-dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and a plush armchair behind him.
Edmund de WaalYangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown craftsmen - were so beautiful. In his view, they expressed unconscious beauty because they had been made in such numbers that the craftsman had been liberated from his ego.
Edmund de WaalStories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.
Edmund de WaalTags: stories things objects patina
The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.
Edmund de WaalTags: burning letting-go
How objects are handed on is all about story-telling. I am giving you this because I love you. Or because it was given to me. Because I bought it somewhere special. Because you will care for it. Because it will complicate your life. Because it will make someone else envious. There is no easy story in legacy. What is remembered and what is forgotten?
Edmund de WaalTags: story-telling
With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.
Edmund de WaalTags: travel language-learning languages
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