– and feeling a subsequent smack of something like vertigo. Part fear, part pleasure, the sublime's jaggy sense of thrill arises most often out of bearing witness to the boundlessness of natural phenomena – big mountains, broad skies, deep oceans, etc. ![]() ![]() ![]() These Heckerian vibrations are variations on a classic idea - one probably rooted in biology and definitely beaten to death in undergraduate English courses - formally titled the "sublime," or the strange, an overwhelming feeling of awe and terror prompted by huge beauty.
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