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Hope is sublime when it is experienced as positive pain…

but sometimes it is nice to hope when one is not caught in that in-between place that has no root, that hollow, that emptiness, that in-between place that is lost in a pattern before the relation of value wants or can be assessed.

Sometimes it is nice to hope when a hope is realistic, when the hope is simple, when the hope is there for the taking and wants to be took. The hope is only sublime when we are offered a glimpse at the answer that evades our natural grasp…

but sometimes the grasp that holds the answer is simply saying not to hope, for to continue to hope would mean to exist in the intangible world; a world where there is no thingness, only experience through imagination.

See text Ethics of the Sublime in Post Modern Culture Emily Lutzker