I guess with your very articulate multiple-choice question, or Pu Pu Platter, I'd have to opt for number three: dissidence, strife, alienation, dispossession, disgruntlement (and also, mercifully, their hopeful undertow of remorse, rapprochement, kinship, sublime acts of selflessness or empathy, and so forth) as the human condition, yep.
The sublime first act develops a strain of delicate visual humour in which WALLE is magically imbued with E.T.'s vulnerability, Buster Keaton's balletic panache, Jacques Tati's minimalist comic sensibility.
Read children sublime one-act play about an oboe player.
But then something surprising happens: Ms. Walsh's co-star in this two-hander, Paul Sparks, shows up, and so does the real play, which evolves into a sublime, beautifully acted drama.
World wars hovered over the creation of each work: Satie's 1917 ballet "Parade"; Poulenc's opera "Les Mamelles de Tirésias," composed during World War II; and Ravel's sublime one-act opera "L'Enfant et les Sortilèges," a setting of Colette's 1917 libretto.
The British ambassador praised the investigation as one during which "[t]he affair of Rhodes was examined with fairness" and called the verdict "a signal proof of the justice and humanity with which the Sublime Porte acts".
It's only the context of a great champion-turned underdog defying expectations about the limits of age, which rendered a mundane act sublime.
He never believed in a living God; Napoleon's deity was an absent and distant God, but he pragmatically considered organised religions as key elements of social order, and especially Catholicism, whose, according to him, "splendorous ceremonies and sublime moral better act over the imagination of the people than other religions".
So I spend an hour or two indulging in what I call "neurotica," the sublime and totally arousing act of organizing.
