I'm realizing that certain activities or situations that I deem beautiful - like punting down the Isis - can actually be an apparition for something I desire, but cannot get (like soggy clothing and splinters ( Read more... )

I am in love with beauty. Now, beauty is a state of...

actually, I will stop there. Wikipedia has just introduced me to a word: aestheticism. And a name which I shall go off and explore when I can: Walter Pater. (And I might need to read 'Marius the Epicurean')

And then I will return to this topic. I don't want to waste the current moment.