“Beauty itself is the language to which we have no key; it is the mute cipher, the cryptogram, the uncracked, unbroken code. And it could be that for beauty, as it turned out for French, that there is no key, that ‘oui’ will never make sense in our language but only in its own, and that we need to start all over again on a new continent, learning the strange syllables one by one.”
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 107
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
On Beauty
Today was the first day of the Beauty class. Not surprisingly, we discussed our definition of 'beauty'. In honor of defining beauty, I thought I would share a quote from Annie Dillard about the mystery of it all...
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