AMMDI is an open-notebook hypertext writing experiment, authored by Mike Travers aka mtraven. It's a work in progress and some parts are more polished than others. Comments welcome! More.
I can get with that. There is a certainly a tinge of sadness to the indefiniteness of our lives and meanings, the sort of wistful pathos found in all transitory things, mono no aware. But there's a big difference between that and crippling nihilistic depression, which is what I interpret "very, very sad" to mean.
I'm just transcribing this, not sure I buy it. It's a real feel but is it universal to all art? IOW is that always the message of real art? See mono no aware.
A certain aesthetic mood that also seems to be at the core of enlightenment. Roughly it means a sensitivity to the transitoriness and hence melancholy of all things.