December 2010
26 posts
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Ancient greeks called beauty charis, which means both beauty and grace, from which the word “charity” derives. Beauty thus bears an intimate, if not identical, relationship to grace. In what sense is beauty graceful? One possibility must be beauty’s givenness: a gift that asks for nothing in return. This may be what is most terrifying about beauty: the possibility that it might...
