Tag: appearance

• Evil is simply Good tortured by its own thirst

  I suppose it shouldn’t be a complete surprise that ugliness came to symbolize vice -at least in Renaissance Art. And for some people, perhaps there’s something a bit Schadenfreudish in it: that those people whose very appearance revolts them are receiving their imagined just rewards, and that, on the other hand, beauty should not be…

  gozzter

  August 19, 2026

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  art, ugliness, Renaissance art, appearance, evil, Leonardo da Vinci, vice

• Beauty and the Beast

  I’ve written several essays about beauty over the years, be they definitional or in comparison with ugliness[i], but I have to admit that I hadn’t considered whether ethics might sometimes be involved with its manifestation, its production. In my youthful naïveté, I suppose I thought of beauty as an inherent quality -something that was an…

  gozzter

  August 30, 2023

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  appearance, barbers, Barbershops, Beauty, beauty products, bullying, confessionals, ethics of beauty, psychology

• There is flattery in friendship

  I have always admired liminality; for me, boundaries are also thresholds. And yet there are areas where, until recently, only angels dared to tread. But I am content to watch from afar; I have neither the need, nor the desire to trespass; I am content with who I am, but curious about who I am…

  gozzter

  April 26, 2023

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  appearance, Covid, food courts, Gender, jewellery, liminality, non-binary