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 Beauty Finds Itself (10-19-2003) by meta4s

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The AI-generated versions (not that beautiful) 

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"We cannot forget that this world is beautiful. Grant all its ugliness and sin — the petty, horrible snarl of its putrid threads, which few have seen more near or more often than I —­ notwithstanding all this, the beauty of this world is not to be denied.”--W.E.B. Du Bois. 

I think what has more of an impact that beauty is long-durational engagement based on things that interest us. It's better that a sunset is also interesting rather than simply beautiful. Even things that one would think to be coarse and ugly can be made beautiful by curiosity. Ideas can be beautiful even if what culminates is ugly by comparison. Heavy Metal and Screamo are also beautiful to lots of people--the beauty of the distortion, beauty in the power.