Vanity Of Vanities
“All is vanity.” So the Preacher tells us — and some three thousand years later, the question still remains undecided how we are to react to those words. On a simple level, the past few centuries have established conclusively that all is vain in the etymological sense — all is void of greater meaning. And [...]
Rhetoric
One finds in the ugly a hatred of beauty as a means of placing others beneath one. Might not the hatred of rhetoric stem from a similar cause in those who lack subtle ears — and subtler mouths?