I knew instantly that I was seeing the 'thing,' the spirit, essence, shared meaning, about which the fathers had found so absent from the public domain".
The essence of the piece (about which Andrew Sullivan has an interesting discussion going) is that marriage is meant to "regulate" sexual intercourse between a man and a woman, which is something that can, but need not, lead to having children.
I can't help but think, though, that real style and the very personal clothing choices Women in Clothes dictates is less about descriptions of the mind or knee-sock collections, and more (I don't want to come across as too precious here), about individual essence, for which there actually are no words.
Instead, it is about essences, which are notoriously difficult to convey in words, though the Japanese painter Hokusai came close.
Thus, Malebranche's skid to Spinozism is greased even when he talks about mind, the essence of which is thought not this or that thought, "but substantial thought, thought capable of all sorts of modifications or thoughts".
William and Catherine's baby is not just the essence of monarchy, which is always about succession.
The subject of your gesture drawing, however, can be just about anything, just as long as you have something the essence of which you can try to capture.
Fairness in elections is a higher calling than the essence of politics, which is about who pays taxes and who gets benefits.
Because it debases the very essence of democracy, which is about the sacred right and privilege of participating in the collective political process.
I really love it because it's a return to what drag is at its essence, which isn't about how well you can perform on television it's about speaking and performing in a way that can captivate people and uplift them and make them feel strong and emotional.
