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  • When it comes to this world—or this universe—physicists are in the sublime's vanguard, according to contributor Ian Greig.

    In Pursuit Of the Sublime 2011

  • This is awe in its more negatively-tinged aspect, focused on the "terrible" part of the sublime's "terrible beauty", as a source of discomfort, unease, tension.

    Freeform Critique Hal Duncan 2008

  • This is awe in its more negatively-tinged aspect, focused on the "terrible" part of the sublime's "terrible beauty", as a source of discomfort, unease, tension.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

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