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I might have to adjust
that number when this (Or, in keeping with a
is finished. trend of late, I might
treat it as a writing
assignment, and invent
eight definitions just
because I liked the
number.)
1 perfect, optimal
2 primally stunning,
beyond question,
beyond reason
MOREBEAUTY
3 classic, uncontroversial,
symmetric balance.
4 truth PRETTY_TRUE
5 deep love that redeems any aspect
6 lust
7 an idealized, mythical, impossibility
8 the real
GOD_OF_HELL
confusions:
individual esthetic vs consensus esthetic
beautiful and good
You might jump off a cliff
for a beautiful show on the way down,
but it's probably not good for you.
That's a short-term/
long-term distinction.
Beauty is immediate.
(Like, pleasure
is short and
happiness long?)
"Some beauties delight the eye but don't captivate
the heart; just as well, because if all beauty did
inspire love and conquer hearts, people's affections would
forever be wandering this way and that without knowing
where to come to rest -- there's an infinite number of
beautiful people, so the affections would be infinite, too."
"Don Quixote" by Cervantes, Part 1, Chapter XIV, p. 109
Marcela, explaining that Grisóstomo was a chump.
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