art as a byproduct of discarded research data
Posted by lordpinoy on March 21, 2009
Did you spring out of heaven or the abyss,
Beauty? Your gaze infernal, yet divine,
Spreads infamy and glory, grief and bliss,
And therefore you can be compared to wine.
— From Hymne à la Beauté (Fleurs du mal) by Charles Baudeliere, trans. by Roy Campbell (1952)
