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THE ANALYSIS OF BEAUTY
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7
AN INDEPENDENT LOOK

Goethe enters the bar having taken a wrong turn on the autobahn.

GOETHE:    Hello Mr. Hogarth, hello Mr. Walpole. Mr. Hogarth I must say that I rather admire your serpentine line but I think you’ve missed the point. The perfect work of art or indeed beauty seems to me to be the work of nature.

Mr. Hogarth is taken aback

GOETHE:    If I look at your line of beauty for long enough all I seem to see is a question mark.

Goethe leaves the bar.