The partnership of ugliness and beauty. Part of the project of beautifying the area involved getting rid of all the ugliness anywhere nearby. But this didn’t work, because the ugly served as a buffer before entering into the world for the beautiful, so that the beautiful would not become shocked by sunlight being given only to them, or glances and stares, even though they were of longing, given only to them. With too much attention and without the help of the ugly to step in every once in a while, the beautiful, molested in this way on all sides, readily wilts or stiffens. It decays, deforms, and becomes ugly itself, uglier than the ugliest, because it still remembers, and hopes to remind others of, its former days of sightliness.
Love the Dust 