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Beauty and the “Beast” (0963)

Macro Mondays theme: Defining Beauty.

 

What is Beauty? An age old question debated by philosophers through the ages.

 

“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness...”

 

This is the opening line from Endymion, a poem by John Keats. It is based on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the moon goddess Selene.

 

As luck or misfortune would have it a fly landed on my thing of beauty. Of course we all know that the rose is beautiful but does the fly enhance the rose or does the rose enhance the fly? Or neither? Or maybe even both? HMM...

 

{This is a tiny rose, the flower measures 3.5cm across (less than 1.5 inches) sitting in a small shot glass}

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Uploaded on August 27, 2018
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