The piece, created by Ms. Collod in collaboration with Ms. Halprin and Morton Subotnick, who composed the score, begins with its six performers slowly shedding their severe black suits and white shirts, before putting them back on with the same unhurried tranquillity.
Freedberg was an avowed atheist, but he nevertheless approached the end of his life with the same sense of tranquillity.
"We deserve the same rights to peace and tranquillity.
At the same time, a writer needs tranquillity and perspective in which to recollect the emotion.
Was that a symptom of his dilemma - that experience and the writing of it were one and the same thing; that he did not recollect in tranquillity but most horribly lived through and then re-lived it all?
Cardano's tranquillitas is therefore not the same as absolute rest: "in its state of highest tranquillity, our soul is as it were tremulous and breathing" (Theonoston, OO, II, 300a, 305b).
Louise Dinnes, owner of the Black Swan Hotel in the village of the same name, (see below) says: "We are a pocket of tranquillity right in the middle.
The same duplicity of levels is evident in the way Cardano examines the notion of "tranquillity," which represents the highest point in one's virtuous behaviour: one type of tranquillity is premised on the attainment of a certain level of "honorable and moderate pleasure," the other secures a decent degree of happiness "even in the greatest calamities" (Theonoston, OO, II, 310b).
That tranquillity is shattered in "Twilight, a Sketch," painted in 1858, using much the same elements but conveying a fevered anxiety.
More succinctly, Sextus says that tranquillity follows suspension of judgment 'as a shadow follows a body' (I 29; for the same image, cf. DL (Diogenes Laërtius) IX 107).
