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For Burke, the efficient cause of the "delight" occasioned by the experience of the Sublime is the power of terrible objects to "clear the parts" of the nervous system of dangerous and debilitating blockages arising from mental lassitude, that is, from persistent states of boredom and ennui.
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See also Françoise Viatte, "Lavis d'Indigo et Papiers Bleus," in Sublime Indigo, 75 – 78 back
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In short, the condition of the possibility of sensus communis, which Kant invokes in "The Analytic of the Sublime," is also the condition of the possibility of the failure of sensus communis to emerge in any given case.
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It's true that Inerane's music often earns that appellation, at least on musical terms; blues and traditional music figure heavily into its catalog on the Seattle raw-internationalist label Sublime Frequencies.
News 2012
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The Seattle-based label Sublime Frequencies has doggedly culled through his enormous catalogue and released three albums of some of his best work to a growing community of Western fans that includes his fellow genre-defying electronica pioneer Björk and
The New Yorker newyorker.com 2010
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It was Brad's expressed intention that no one use the name Sublime in any group that did not include him, and Brad even registered the trademark Sublime under his own name.
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It was Brad's expressed intention that no one use the name Sublime in any group that did not include him, and Brad even registered the trademark Sublime under his own name.
unknown title 2009
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Foreigners entered through a gate called the Sublime Porte, and were thus accredited “Ambassadors to the Sublime Porte.”
Archive 2006-09-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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Foreigners entered through a gate called the Sublime Porte, and were thus accredited “Ambassadors to the Sublime Porte.”
Log of the Eclipse (13) Walter Jon Williams 2006
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