May 23, 2006 22:51
"What most people mean by beauty is really a kind of aesthetic acceptability, not so much character as a lack o f it, a set of features and lineaments that hide their history, that suggest that hihstory itself does not exist. But the template by which which we recognize the featurues and forms in the human body that causue the heart to halt, threatening to spill us over into the silence of death - that is drawn on another part of the soul entierly. Such features are different for each of us...But all sing, chant, hymn the history of the body, if only becausue we all know how people regard bodes that deviate from the lauded and totally abnonrmal norm named beauty" - Samuel R. Delaney