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The Mix-Up in Every Wife about Selfishness & Generosity–& the Aesthetic Answer

Discussion in this “Understanding Marriage” workshop will focus on the following great sentences by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism–from his landmark lecture The Furious Aesthetics of Marriage:
“We are interested in another, we want to please that person. There is a desire to fetch unknown cups of water for unknown thirsts….[But] two married people find out very soon that with all the devotion, the selves uttering the devotion seem to be interested in themselves. No matter how many errands have been run, how many kind words have been said, self is still there, doing business in behalf of the central firm….There is an aesthetic mix-up, which means there is bad aesthetics, in the business of being oneself and another self, too, which marriage insists on.”











When: Sat., Oct. 8, 2016 at 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Where: Aesthetic Realism Foundation
141 Greene St.
212-777-4490
Price: $10
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Discussion in this “Understanding Marriage” workshop will focus on the following great sentences by Eli Siegel, founder of Aesthetic Realism–from his landmark lecture The Furious Aesthetics of Marriage:
“We are interested in another, we want to please that person. There is a desire to fetch unknown cups of water for unknown thirsts….[But] two married people find out very soon that with all the devotion, the selves uttering the devotion seem to be interested in themselves. No matter how many errands have been run, how many kind words have been said, self is still there, doing business in behalf of the central firm….There is an aesthetic mix-up, which means there is bad aesthetics, in the business of being oneself and another self, too, which marriage insists on.”

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