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Aim for beauty, and you get the vapid; you get fashion, beribboned cliche; aim for something else - encyclopaedic knowledge, systematic inventory, structural analysis, personal obsession, or just a mental itch that responds to scratching, and you end up with beauty. Beauty is only a by-product, unsought, yet available to amateurs and impenitent believers.

So well crafted, reveals the story through irregular chronology and short blurbs of text that all get woven together as you read

You loved mathematics. At least there, they can’t dress it up. It’s either right or it’s wrong; it’s not a matter of authority, prestige, or clever bluff-ability; no Vatican, no Pantheon, no Kremlin has the power to change it. You loved that rigor, the pure curves that intersect at just the right spot. [...] What pleasure!


Louise Bourgeois.