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([personal profile] catslash Sep. 25th, 2009 06:39 pm)
*attempts to read the fifth and final chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*

*hits lengthy section with protagonist attempting to define beauty*

*loses will to live*

Seriously, I make it through the sermons on hell and Stephen's subsequent spiritual crisis (augmented by the inherent drama of being sixteen), and this is my reward?

You wanna know my current definition of beauty? SparkNotes.
ashen_key: ([STXI]  promise of something)

From: [personal profile] ashen_key


OOH! OOH! I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT! *coughs and goes to find quote*

Stendhal (no idea who he is) said: beauty is the promise of happiness

Which I think sums it up all in six words, really. No need for anything else!

*sends waves of sympathy*

Edited Date: 2009-09-25 11:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] catslash.livejournal.com


SparkNotes promises to release me from having to read the rest of this book, which makes me happy. Thus it is beautiful.

Works for me! :D

From: [identity profile] thekatcameback.livejournal.com


Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man made me want to scratch my eyes out and weep through the gore. :(
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