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Romantic: extravagant, exaggerated, wild, imaginative, fantastic...
The luster of beauty engages the senses to the present, the most akin to eternity that we can experience while still in Time. Experiencing it makes life a little easier to live and comfort swells on you like a mother's kiss. The religion of beauty.
I went to a Josh Ritter concert. Concert is too crude of a word, so is "performance." He sang as someone perpetually in love, exposed and accessible. I think every girl fell in love with him as he sang. When you looked around the room people were either smiling or spellbound. Several times Ritter went on his knees, played his guitar, and sang pleadingly--eyes closed and heart open. During his song "Kathleen" he orchestrated an enormous slow dance and said, "the world is a cold and lonely place and tonight we can make it a little less cold and a little less lonely." Happiness emanated from him in a contagious sort of way.
I've never seen an artist quite like him. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, go see Josh Ritter if you can.
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