Show ART imigine that you are listen ing to a drama you feel an in creased sen e of reality ough the interpretation of the diama you eel feel life more intensely the same la 19 true when you its ten to good music ought to do the same it sho lid ild make us feel an increased sense of reality of vitality art bho tho a us things as they reilly re illy lily are PUl loso hy should do the same in other words philosophy ought to be a direct and antim te perception of reality one of the fun of philosophy la is to bhoj us I 1 thit b it in III our ordin ordinary iry I 1 re fe we are I 1 alf lf asleep to things as ag they are 0 ir eyes aided by our memory would rould cut out in space and fix its in time inimitable pi pt tures our glance would heize in passing sculptured in the living marble of the human body bits or of statuary as bean ticul as those of antiquity we would hear bear singing in tl it p depths of our soul like music sometimes times tny gay more often pi illi illative tive al at eways ways original the unit melody of our interior life all this Is around us all this Is tn in us ar at d yet nothing of all this Is per elved by u us ui i di tin tl aly between tn een us a and ad oil our r 0 vii ons ous lo 10 is tess a veil interpol es a thi k veil for the common min m in a tt it in veil almo almost it tor for the artist and the bet what fain fair b his is woven this veil art Is 19 only a more dire t vision of reality elentri bergson |