Images we have learned to associate with perfection are everywhere, and although there is transitory pleasure in the promise of self-improvement that they hold, the bigger truth is that the effects from a psychological and holistic perspective are breeding intense competition and breaking down cultures.
Edo artists transformed the idea into the transitory world of pleasure, a demimonde of geisha and parties, actors and theater.
The name suggests fleeting, fungible pleasures, the transitory impressions and perishable sensations that a movie camera, in the right hands, is uniquely equipped to capture.
Though intellectually he presumably understood the transitory nature of worldly pleasures and felt a call to Yoga and ascetic living, he was unable to control his desires.
"Unstoppable" doesn't belong in that company: its story is largely forgettable, and its pleasures are transitory, limited to the actors (including Rosario Dawson and Kevin Corrigan, working up a sweat back in dispatch) and to its moments of beauty and strange comedy.
Instead, he wrote, human beings should conquer their fears, accept the fact that they themselves and all the things they encounter are transitory, and embrace the beauty and the pleasure of the world.
"What human beings can and should do," as Greenblatt summarizes it, "is to conquer their fears, accept the fact that they themselves and all the things they encounter are transitory, and embrace the beauty and the pleasure of the world".
In other words, for believers, this life is both sacred and transitory to the next life, in which pleasure exists independent of suffering, and we will be recompensed for what was taken from us in this life.
The only way for an essentially static art to overcome the transitory nature of both what it depicts and of ordinary pleasures is by picking a beautiful moment which is as it were exempt from the actual transitoriness of an object's history in real nature and our pleasure in which also does not fade like other pleasures do ("First Grove," p. 137).
A modern rendering would be something like, "Our pleasures here are all vain./ This false world is transitory./ The flesh is weak, the fiend is sly./ Fear of death distresses me".
