On Exquisite Beauty

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe

Poe There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion

Leading up to Halloween, we’ve got ourselves some Edgar Allan Poe.

(And yes, I ran this sentence through the grammar check and it found nothing wrong with it. Sir Adgar Allan Poe might have been scared.)

With ongoing discussions about self-image and, lately, self-optimization, this old line seems strangely fitting. Let’s la la la into a new week. Make it productive (and, if you must, spooky).

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Fairy Tale Forrest – B Sides

Weekend Movie – Poltergay

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11 thoughts on “On Exquisite Beauty

      1. Two-faces comes from the legend of the Roman god Janus, who had two faces, one at the front of his head and another at the back. It was assumed that a person who would say one thing to one person and a conflicting thing to another would have two faces, like Janus.

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