>...and although my advocacy may travel south on occasion, there has to be at least 2.24 percent of *truth (or was that *beauty?) somewhere north in the post.

"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty" -- a correct philosophical utterance made aesthetically incorrect at the very moment it is uttered. beauty is truth only if and when the pedagogue is there to say so by whatever means he can -- arguably, beauty is truth precisely when it does *not say so, just as a holy man disproves his holiness as soon as he asserts it. ironically enough then, this most famous line of Keats, while starkly simple, denies what a simple line must be valued for, asserting what should be implied, attesting to what it can't. it's a paradox akin to "this sentence is false".

[after Alexander Theroux]