“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.”
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This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.
But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
