1. On the Sublime and Beautiful
... . Burke's sublime has a noxious aura around it because the sublime finds its pleasure through pain because the sublime can arise in two ways the first being that it is pleasure can be found from escaping pain, which is delight, or it can found from thinking about pain by viewing others in pain, as in tragedy, or by thinking about how oneself is not in pain ... . The sublime is more powerful than beauty because pain is more entrapping than pleasure on the mind. Pain has the power to engulf one's being in an expansive darkness that he cannot escape easily ... , but the escape in itself lead...
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