Gnossienne—The Awareness That Someone You’ve Known for Years Still Has a Private and Mysterious Inner Life
“It’s a joy to get to know someone over the course of many years. Learning her secrets, the color of her humor, the precise vibration of the mind-gears turning inside her skull. But sometimes you look across the room and catch a glimpse of her just being herself—brushing her teeth, or chatting away at a dinner party, or telling you about her day—and even though you may have seen her do it thousands of times, you begin to look at her in a different light, struck by her sheer uniqueness. Nobody else knows her in the same way you do. There’s only one of her in the universe. And here she is.”
Read the whole essay at The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.
I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that Erik Satie is the patron saint of Pixels.
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