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• W200520579 abstract "art—free and pure—are juxtaposed to literature and the complex moral world, muddled and flawed. 33 Located in art, nature and the human brain, this harmony is least likely to be found where subjectivities come into play. As Perowne hears Theo play his latest song, it makes him wonder about the ever failing worldly efforts directed to peace, whereas ―only in music, and only on rare occasions, does the curtain actually lift on this dream of community, and it‘s tantalisingly conjured, before fading away with the last notes ... And here it is now, a coherent world, everything fitting at last‖—―in which you give everything you have to others, but lose nothing of yourself‖ (Sat 172, 171). He connects the transcendence, the perfect clarity and harmony in his son‘s music to a balance and harmony absent from life. And since this larger cohesion will always remain a utopia, he withdraws and sticks to his private joys, subscribing to the philosophy of his eighteen year old son: When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in—you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we're doing with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto— think small. (Sat 34-5) This strategic small thinking‘ is connected to Perowne‘s nostalgia for more naive times, and his tendency to close off his consciousness to otherness. Pondering the alleged feelings of the fish he will prepare for dinner, he contemplates these issues: ―[t]his is the growing complication of the modern condition, the expanding circle of moral sympathy. Not only distant peoples are our brothers and sisters, but foxes too, and laboratory mice, and now the fish‖ (Sat 127). Perowne will not comply and opts for ignorance: ―If they‘re alive and in pain, he isn‘t to know‖ (Sat 177). His empathy is selective and does not travel, there‘s not enough love to round‘: ―[f]or all the discerning talk, it‘s the close at hand, the visible that exerts the overpowering force. And what you don't see ... That‘s why in gentle Marylebone the world seems so entirely at peace‖ (Sat 127). There are no guidelines, no terms of selection, determining to whom we extend our humane feelings: Animals? Murderers? The mentally deranged? Terrorists? But once we allow empathy to trickle down in our consciousness, its appeals are bound to increase: mercy, responsibility, are inherently non-selective. And as 33 The description of Perowne‘s operation on Baxter at the end of the novel comes closest to an encounter with the singularity of a work of art. Significantly, McEwan has revealed that to him, surgery functioned as a way to write about writing, otherwise impossible: ―I knew I wanted to write a major operation at the end but it would really be about writing, about making art‖ (Vida 2005, 224)." @default.
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