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luninosity:
“It is almost universally the case in everyday life that the most cherished object is one that has been hand-made by a friend: there is no mystery about this, for the object’s material attributes themselves record and memorialize the intensely personal, extraordinary because exclusive, interior feelings of the maker for just this person—This is for you. But anonymous mass-produced objects contain a collective and equally extraordinary message: whoever you are, and whether or not I like you or even know you, in at least this small way, be well. Thus, within the realm of objects, objects-made-for-anyone bear the same relation to objects-made-for-someone that, within the human relation, caritas does to eros. Whether they reach someone in the extreme conditions of imprisonment or in the benign and ordinary conditions of everyday life, the handkerchief, blanket, and bucket of white paint contain within them the wish for well-being: don’t cry; be warm; watch now, in a few moments even these constricting walls will look more spacious.”
–Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World
luninosity:
“It is almost universally the case in everyday life that the most cherished object is one that has been hand-made by a friend: there is no mystery about this, for the object’s material attributes themselves record and memorialize the intensely personal, extraordinary because exclusive, interior feelings of the maker for just this person—This is for you. But anonymous mass-produced objects contain a collective and equally extraordinary message: whoever you are, and whether or not I like you or even know you, in at least this small way, be well. Thus, within the realm of objects, objects-made-for-anyone bear the same relation to objects-made-for-someone that, within the human relation, caritas does to eros. Whether they reach someone in the extreme conditions of imprisonment or in the benign and ordinary conditions of everyday life, the handkerchief, blanket, and bucket of white paint contain within them the wish for well-being: don’t cry; be warm; watch now, in a few moments even these constricting walls will look more spacious.”
–Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: the Making and Unmaking of the World
