Comments on: This ain’t no beauty pageant!

By: My Reverie

My Reverie — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:25:51 +0000

Beauty is Harsh (Ancient Greek: Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά “Khalepa ta kala”)

It stops your thoughts, it makes your thoughts run amok with the idea of it.

The arresting nature of beauty is never really one dimensional,and I’m sure you know that. :)

By: e.lee

e.lee — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:55:56 +0000

what is beauty but another form of grotesqueness?

By: mbak sosro

mbak sosro — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:09:22 +0000

I like a lot of pwetty things. Especially from here:

http://www.itsnicethat.com/?c=Photography

pwetty.

By: Shao

Shao — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:18:43 +0000

I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned
I thought I’d be rewarded
For such a lonely choice
And surely she would answer
To such a very hopeless voice
I practiced all my sainthood
I gave to one and all
But the rumours of my virtue
They moved her not at all
I changed my style to silver
I changed my clothed to black
And where I would surrender
Now I would attack
I stormed the old casino
For the money and the flesh
And I myself decided
What was rotten and what was fresh
And men to do my bidding
And broken bones to teach
The value of my pardon
The shadow of my reach
But no, I could not touch her
With such a heavy hand
Her star beyond my order
Her nakedness unmanned
I came so far for beauty
I left so much behind
My patience and my family
My masterpiece unsigned
– L. Cohen

By: 阿辉

阿辉 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:37:30 +0000

《殉美》（I Died for Beauty）的两种译本

我為美殉身――在墓中
剛適應不久
便有一為真理殉身者，
被停放在鄰室――

他輕輕問我「為何陣亡」?
「為美」，我回答――
「而我是為真理―美和真理原一體
那我們是兄弟」，他說――

所以，如同親人相見在一個夜晚
我們隔牆交談――
直到青苔長到我們唇上――
且淹沒了我們的名字――

或
　
余光中译：

我为美死去，但是还不曾
安息在我的墓里
又有个为真理而死去的人
来躺在我的隔壁。

他悄悄地问我为何以身殉？
“为了美，”我说。
“而我为真理，两者不分家；
我们是兄弟两个。”

于是像亲戚在夜间相遇，
我们便隔墙谈天，
直到青苔爬到了唇际，
将我们的名字遮掩。

Emily Dickinson 狄金森

By: 阿辉

阿辉 — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 02:25:57 +0000

I died for beauty but was scarce

Adjusted in the tomb,

When one who died for truth was lain

In an adjoining room.

He questioned softly why I failed?

“For beauty,” I replied.

“And I for truth,–the two are one;

We brethren are,” he said.

And so, as kinsmen met a night,

We talked between the rooms,

Until the moss had reached our lips,

And covered up our names.

Emily Dickinson

By: tofu

tofu — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:32:35 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLsKM_EWGzw

By: swoon

swoon — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:27:55 +0000

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/being-a-man/articles/67/title/beauty-brains-celebrity-babes-with-high-iqs

gotta have it all

By: noodlesss

noodlesss — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:19:25 +0000

I like this statue of Balzac by Rodin….

http://gordon.shecket.org/images/Sculpture%20Gardens/Hirshhorn/11%20Rodin%20-%20Balzac.JPG

it’s like me when i’m gripped by inspiration… unkempt and probably stinky if I’m not made of bronze.

By: dill

dill — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:11:43 +0000

… i have an emoticon that looks exactly like my facial expression now, but out of respect for this thread, i shall not reveal it.

show la your favourite art work. surely it cant be the same as mine.

show la. plis. hik hik.