Now gazing out, over majestic panoramas, contemplative, thinking big thoughts, thoughts with lots of zeros after them.
And second, I think there are simply people who don't share my belief that more contemplative thought is important.
If you don't care about quiet or more contemplative thought, then obviously you're not going to even understand where I'm coming from.
Professor Guy Claxton, author of Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind, claims we have three basic mind speeds: slow, contemplative thought; deliberate thought; and intuition, which is faster than logical thought and may be more efficient.
Together, Ficino and Lyly reveal the way that contemplative thought extends itself across bodies and spaces in early modern culture.
Written at a time when the nature of place was reimagined, John Lyly's Endymion draws upon Neoplatonic theories of desire to present space as a domain continually reshaped by contemplative thought.
And as a subject, it is probably undeserving of hard contemplative thought or, more germane to what you're looking at right now, an exploration of its universe via words and photographs.
Blake, in his notes to A Vision of the Last Judgment, describes how his design is to work: "If the Spectator could Enter into these Images in his Imagination approaching them on the Fiery Chariot of his Contemplative Thought then would he arise from his Grave".
It's a sport/game/leisure activity so simple that I always feel vaguely self-conscious actually explaining it out loud: "Well, you, um, try to knock down pins with a ball". And as a subject, it is probably undeserving of hard contemplative thought or, more germane to what you're looking at right now, an exploration of its universe via words and photographs.
