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   Ardith Hinton to Anton Shepelev:   
      
   AS>> This observation is most excellently demonstrated in   
   AS>> Clark Ashton Smith's prose poem "The Demon, the Angel,   
   AS>> and Beauty":   
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   AS>> http://eldritchdark.com/writings/   
   AS>> prose-poetry-plays/10/print   
      
   AH> I found it very interesting.   
      
   I was reminded of it this very Sunday in the State History   
   Museum, while exploring with my 20x loupe a 16th-century   
   print of Durer's "Melencholia I", on expositon from   
   Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo. The angel and the putto are   
   both rather gloomy. They have failed to penetrate the secret   
   of Beauty in spite of all the instruments they have tried to   
   measure it, for Beauty is God or at least from God. It is a   
   Platonic ideal.   
      
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