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Collection of essays by the French mystic nicknamed ‘the categorical imperative in skirts‘
Let me convince you with this quote: ‘We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us our own desire for good. It is a sphinx, an enigma, a sorrowfully irritating mystery.
We want to feed on it, but it is only an object we can look on; it appears to us from a certain distance. The great sorrow of human life is knowing that to look and to eat are two different operations.’
I WANT TO EAT THE SUNSET I want to HAVE IT that is what is so great and sexy about food, you can eat the gorgeous pastry, you can consume it, it becomes apart of you and sustains you. But a beautiful painting or person or landscape is different - you can’t have it. You can’t do anything with it. its beauty exists in virtue of its remove from you. true beauty is useless and the fact that I can’t have or do anything with the beautiful thing is unbearable.
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chatted with Sable Yong about scent-based fascism, embracing outer beauty, analyzing artifice, and her fav Bruce Willis flick for this week's newsletter. her new book of essays Die Hot with a Vengeance is quite good <3
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