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Beauty II

Picking up where we left off...  The later parts of the conversation reminded me of a quote by George Elliot: http://www.famousquotes.com/show/1022632/

It was interesting to notice how much I still assume that art should = beauty when, as Zen points out, a lot of art has given up on beauty.  Art can communicate through beauty, but it's also willing to try shock, humor, garishness, banality, decay, etc. -- not limited. 

RIght now, I'm of the mindset that beauty that disturbs is pointing at our own samsaric tendencies -- own own habits of creating death.