"The truly ‘mysterious' object is beyond our apprehension... not only because our knowledge has certain irremovable
limits, but because in it we come upon something inherently ‘wholly other'... and before which we
therefore recoil in a wonder that strikes us chill and numb." - Rudolph Otto
i love 'antiques roadshow ' on PBS - it looks like it is produced for about 12 bucks per episode, but i can't turn it off when i see it. if you aren't familiar with it, its a show where people bring in their old stuff to get it appraised. sometimes they find out they have a fake, but more often than not, some lady with a box full of silver baby spoons finds out she is sitting on a gold mine. it makes you want to run into your basement or attic and see if you still have that old doll house your grandma gave you because it might be worth a quarter million.
