Nicholas Carr on the Contemplative Gaze

As always, Alan Jacobs (@ayjay) calls our attention to extraordinary writing, not only his own but of others as well. In this case, it is Nicholas Carr writing about the act of contemplation, both of art and of nature. And while I will have to think more about his preference for what he calls “unenchantment,” this essay is worth reading if only for the lengthy Nathaniel Hawthorne quotation in which he describes sitting in Sleepy Hollow just…being aware.