But and now we are getting to the theoretical heart of the Problem of Quotation the experience of sublimity is subjective and associational.

NEWYORKER: Notable Quotables

Spurred on by the guidebooks of the day, well-heeled English gentlemen travellers rapturously recounted the sublimity of crashing surf and rocky outcrops in their journals.

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Even the grandest scenes, with their quasi-Biblical sublimity such as the bewitching dinner of seduction and an earthly leave-taking that plays like a real-time transfiguration never leave ordinary wonders behind.

NEWYORKER: The Parson's Widow

But surely there is a direct line of descent from James Thurber (1894-1961), many of whose madcap sketches and parables draw on his childhood in Columbus, Ohio and the inherently uneasy relationship between men and women and the comparative sublimity of dogs (even those that bite).

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