Mr. Baan's work, while still showing architecture in flattering lights and from carefully chosen angles, does away with the old feeling of chilly perfection.
For some, Saint-John Perse is the embodiment of the French national spirit: intellectual yet passionate, deeply conscious of the tragedy of life, a man of affairs with an artist's feeling for perfection and symmetry.
The purgation exists within the work; when language, character and structure interconnect so harmoniously that one cannot differentiate among them, there is the transcendent feeling of having experienced perfection.
Similarly, throughout the song the constant return to the word "love" – frequently rhyming with itself, brings a sense of perfection; a feeling that there is nothing that can match love, nothing that can measure up to it, but love itself.
You will discover that chemistry, or that intuitive feeling of relational and romantic perfection, exists because of the connection of opposite self-orientations, not because of a well thought out list of similarities, likes, and dislikes.
Congreve rises above other dramatists of his time in both the delicacy of his feeling and the perfection of his phrasing.
This will help to set up new mental habits where instead of feeling accomplished via perfection, you get that same feeling from getting the job done.
2. Give up the idea of perfection -- If you are feeling the pressure to get everything done on time, perfectly and without error -- please stop yourself there.
During a time when society is obsessed with the notion of all things "local" and forever striving for the feeling of "authenticity" as a benchmark for perfection, the renovated hotel feels considerably more stylish yet less aligned with this greater ideal than its former self.
