an etymology of the sublime
'In philosophy and poetics, something is sublime if it is raised (both by the speaker-poet and by the reader-thinker) “up to” [ibid., sublime] or above the lintel. '
Brian Charles Clark
   
subliminal, sub-lim’ in-al , adj. Beneath the threshold of consciousness.
 
   
Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary
  
an etymology of the sublime    
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performers:
franck baranek
dominique bulgin
isobel cohen
chirstinn whyte

filmed:
cambridge, august 2005

 
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