nothing feels mysterious any more
Semi-cool has usually stood in for cool in the popular imagination, because the latter – well, because the latter wouldn’t be what it is if it troubled the popular imagination. Cool is, to repurpose the late Donald Rumsfeld as a cultural theorist, an unknown unknown.
Everything is Clapham now
In our bottomless craving to reveal what’s unknown, we deprive ourselves of the sensual encounter, the anticipation, and the potential to rejig reality.
Toko-pa Turner • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves home
We want surprise and suspense, but we also crave order and closure. The artistry of the mystery box is in the balance: give away too much and we’re bored, give away too little and we’re lost.
Jonah Lehrer • Mystery: A Seduction, A Strategy, A Solution
We need the presence of mystery in the same way that the coherence and beauty of a landscape require the presence of a horizon, whether as a line defining the field of vision or as a dark boundary that gives sharper definition to the world that is illuminated. Or as language needs the refreshment of silence. We need a sense of communion with that... See more
the hedgehog review • Mystery
A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us.
Julia Cameron • The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
As our dark nights deepen, we find ourselves recovering our love of mystery. When we were children, most of us were good friends with mystery. The world was full of it and we loved it. Then as we grew older, we slowly accepted the indoctrination that mystery exists only to be solved. For many of us, mystery became an adversary; unknowing became a
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