‘”This is not my beautiful house…’ And this is because things are mysterious, in a radical and irreducible way. Mysterious comes from the Greek muein, which means to close the lips. Things are unspeakable. And you discover this aspect of things, as if you could somehow feel that un-feelability, in the beauty experience, or as Keats puts it, the feel of not to feel it. This ‘and you may find yourself’ tentative hesitant subjunctive quality isn’t just a temporary blip and it certainly isn’t a phenomenon that only occurs to sentient beings, let alone conscious ones, let alone human ones. It’s sort of everywhere, because being isn’t presence.’

Timothy Morton, All Art is Ecological pp11-12 – Penguin Green Ideas 3