Feeling sublime

I think an interesting part of what I read today was when the main character described a time with him and his friends that could probably be described as sublime. It's not really the sublime aspect that fascinated me, but rather how Tony felt in the moment. He said that the sight was "more unsettling because it looked and felt quietly wrong, as if some small lever of the universe had been pressed,and here, just for these minutes, nature was reversed..." Barnes' style of writing makes it easy to connect and understand Tony's feeling at the moment. I could easily envision myself in the situation. What I found most interesting was how such a beautiful feeling was, at the same time, terrifyingly unsettling.  The peaceful nature of the situation is what is setting chaos in his feelings, ironically. I think that we live our lives so quickly paced that we tend to forget what it is like to truly sit down and relax while watching nature pass. We put so much of our day into going to school, doing our jobs, sleeping, and being coped up inside that we never truly appreciate the world we're living. Surely, there are a multitude of negative things in our world, but so much of it is astounding and we never really notice it. Going back to Tony, I think that he might have felt like this because it is those very sublime moments, that remind us of how little we really are in the scheme of things. They force us to remember that in the infinite universe, we practically don't even exist.
I found it really interesting to see the sublime from Tony's perspective versus that of Dostoyevky's underground man. The underground man said that at these very moments, the moments he know that he should do no wrong, is when he most wants to destroy it all. His personality seems so strong that he wants to ruin it completely while Tony is actually frightened by it.