The Writers' Lounge

Personally I'm very comfortable with "beautiful" as a descriptive term for the ability to capture and convey a reaction to ugly things. To quote a too often quoted saying, beauty is in the eye of the beholder?

I keep coming back to other art forms to make comparisons because I think it's valid that not everyone will respond to a certain form of prose, but does that decrease (or increase) the value of what's being said? Perhaps because language is ubiquitously used as everyday expression we hold it to a different standard? Though symbols - artistic renderings - are as well. We don't want cubist formations of little guys and gals telling us where the toilets are, but we can easily differentiate between interpretation and symbol. Can we as easily and generously differentiate between prose and text?

Huh, I thought I had something there. Maybe it's still there, I dunno. I think there's another glass of wine calling my name.