What is real beauty?

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Let's dicuss!(Gale)

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

American Beauty is a rose, and Black Beauty is a horse. So is it come kind of equine/plant hybrid. Maybe a type of Horse Chestnut tree?

― Pete, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i don't know the answer to this one gale!

― katie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Me.

― Ally C, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Lou Reed's guitar solo in "Heard Her Call My Name".

― Trevor, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The way david showers in the morning so modest and sweet and does not involve any singing or anything .
stripped pine floors
birch furniture ( esp. the Aalto stuff).
Frank O'Hara Poetry ( esp the line In that orange shirt you look like a/better happier St Sebastion
John Cage Sonotas (3:15 into the first one for prepared piano) .
The prose of Mavis Gallant.(esp her French Stories)
Midnight in a hay field looking at the stars .
Mother MAybelle Carters Voice.
Plaster Statues of Catholic Saints ( Rain Damaged)
Silver Jewlery imbeded w. Citirne or Peroidit or amethyst.
The Milk Kitchens in Synagouges .
3 am on a train from Edmonton to Vancouver.
Swimming at the Mount Douglas Park ocean beach in Victoria.
The Color of Flesh in Titian .
Agnes Martins Pencil Drawings.
Spensers Sonents. Ophelias Flower Speech in Hamlet.
Fra Angelico painting Buildings.
The Jonas Salk Instutite in Le Jolla Ca.
Clavicles, Wrists and the triangle of hair when one button is undone
Eames Chairs
The Friezes in Angkor Watt
The deer in Persion Minature Paintings
Dan Delillos the body artist
Vargas Girls
George Platt Lynes Boys
Auden
The Seafarer translated by Pound
The Anthology of American Folk Music
Boots Clacking on hard wood floors
Nina Simone yearning
De Koonings Black and White ink drawings
72 views of Mount Fuji by Houksai
The way a hard penis arches like a graceful bridge towards the belly
A Pinot Noir from California
Roe,Tuna,Salmon,Urchin and Eel on a greygreen sushi platter
Graneries at dusk
Mashed Potatoes with Rosemary and Garlic
Grand Central Station
Japanese Tatimi Mattes
White on White Chinese Poetry from the tang dynasty
The Ausertity of Glenn Goulds Goldberg Varitions
Pink Narcsisous
The Last Scene in Umbrellas of Cherbourg with the Snow and Denuve hidden in the Mercedes
Quilts
The Spirit Of G-d Jublaition Protestant Hymns

― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The love and detail in Anthony's post above.

― Ellie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mashed Potatoes with Rosemary and Garlic

You spelt "gravy" wrong!

― Sarah, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i forgot tulips , orange tulips .

― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I agree with Ellie.

― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Are we talking human physical beauty, or are we talking aesthetic beauty? Or something else entirely, some philosophical concept of beauty? Because we could spend years debating the Platonic concepts of the Good, the True and the Beautiful, and I'd rather talk about cute boys.

I'm going to pretend we are talking about human beauty because I am shallow and I crave physical beauty in human beings. Yet I like to kid myself that the things I consider beautiful are slightly unusual, and therefore evidence of things I consider good beneath the surface.

Do I like tall, below-weight men with good hair and prominent noses because I am following a biological pre-programmed urge to copulate with men with signs of good health and good genetic material? Or do I like skinny, pale, dirty-haired men with poor eyesight because this is a sign that they are far too busy contemplating intellectual delights to be concerned with something so mundane as conforming to an established idea of physical beauty? Do I like longer hair because it is a sign of virility and health, or because long hair is traditionally a sign of the counter-culture and the intellectual?

Is there a reason that we consider certain things beautiful, and certain things not beautiful, and ifso, is it the obvious one or the convoluted one?

Today I am obsessed with sex and beauty and I blame Brautigan and the Smiths.

― kate, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think it is light on water.

― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why over anaylze it kate , does a long haired man give you pleasure then its a belly reaction.

― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I suspect it's a little lower than that.

― Trevor, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

What I find strange, and I don't mean this as arecrimination, is how Anthony can post so thoughtfully and gently on this thread, and be relatively tolerant of guns and gun-owners. It just seems paradoxical to me...

― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I thought for a long time about becoming a vegitarian and realized i could not give up meat. David and i found a balance. He would hunt so we knew where our food was coming from, how our meat was processed. To hunt we needed guns, i have been arround guns all my life as well. Living on a farm you realize at a young age they are a tool and liek every tool need to be used with caution and only by those who know how. I obey the gun laws and really the only shooting that goes on in our family is for game birds and moose.

― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cf the poem Naming Of Parts by (I think) Henry Reed. You are I suspect meant as a reader to counter the beauty of the tranquil garden the lesson is taking place in with the ugliness of the gun mechanism that the lesson concerns. But to me both were beautiful, or at least beautifully described - the swift random beauty of nature, the intricacy and exactness of the mechanism. So the poem for me became about how the beauty of machinery can be used for terrible acts. Old weapons can be beautiful things. (Of course the Futurists saw beauty both in the machinery and the acts)

― Tom, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Have you read the Futurist MAnnifesto on Lust Tom ?

― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Don't remember it if I have. The only Futurist texts I have are by Marinetti, I've got his 'Let's Murder The Moonlight' collected writings.

― Tom, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

here it is sorry to hijack yr thread gale !

― anthony, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

beauty is a cold beer on a warm christmas morning.

― jess, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I take your point now Anthony, thanks. :-)

― Will, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Big boobs and a winning smile.

― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

huh, you are a big boob nick!

― katie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

she said with a winning smile :D

― katie, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

How big are your boobs?

― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Big boobs and a winning smile.'-How predictable is that, darling? Despite the difficulties of this question, could we come up with something a bit more,argh, elaborated?

What about a perky bottom and nonchalant attitude? Smiling is so Pret-a-porter-waitress.

― Laetitia, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Someone who is generous and kind and makes you want to cry because you never expected it. And has big boobs and a winning smile.

― alix, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

cement and metal.
distant things.

― emil.y, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Things I find beautiful:

Sunsets
Vapour trails
Dark blue nights
Spider webs when wet
Snow covered valleys

― james, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ponce

― Nick, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Nick why so spiteful?

― james, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony, What beautiful descriptions of beauty! :) Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

About the beaty question, let's leave it to the individual poster. :) Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have a thing for eyes. Big ones. eh......I should keep these things in my head.

― Ronan, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hi Ronan, Eyes are special! :) Gale

― Gale Deslongchamps, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

New things

― Maria, Thursday, 22 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anthony rools, oh yes he does. Er, beauty for me? Oh man, seeing someone you like smile back at you and snuggle close because they like being with you. Yow! :-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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