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justdaveisfine@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I’m weirdly reminded of the neuromancer book where the protagonist remarks on a bartender who looks rough but doesn’t bodymod himself to look good. He says something like “When good looks are so cheap, there’s something beautiful about being ugly.”

I probably butchered that quote but I can’t find my copy of the book so it is what it is lol.

Anyways it stuck out as a profound thought and it definitely rings true now. It may not be pretty but its genuine and that’s the most important part of art.

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binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I had to memorize Shakespeare sonnet 68 in high school, it’s basically about how a person who doesn’t wear powder or wigs made out of dead people’s hair is much more interesting and beautiful for showing their age. It’s never been more relevant than here:

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,\
When beauty liv'd and died as flowers do now,\
Before the bastard signs of fair were borne,\
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;\
Before the golden tresses of the dead,\
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,\
To live a second life on second head;\
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay.\
In him those holy antique hours are seen,\
Without all ornament, itself and true,\
Making no summer of another's green,\
Robbing no old to dress his beauty new;\
   And him as for a map doth Nature store,\
   To show false Art what beauty was of yore.

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