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Letter from the Editor

From the Desk

Perspectives


Ragin'

Tweeze This
By Danny Usher

The Beauty of it All
By Neil Foster


Profile

Derek Mehaffy
By David May

An Interview with Oneself
By Steve Williams


Photofactual Essay

Betel Nut
By Richard Matheson


Reflection
What a Wonderful World
By Andrew Crosthwaite

Experimental

With This Camera Please Photograph Beauty
By Steven Vigar


Culture

Taiwanese Opera
By Richard Matheson

Tattoo
By Kloie Picot

Smothered in Chocolate
By Kevin Hill


Poii Spy
Beautiful Losers
By Paul Andrew

Comic

Bonus Web Features

Reflection

Who Doesn't Want Booty
By Simon Wallace


Expresso Fiction

Fleeting
By Micah Park


Perspectives

A person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others.
~ Tara Grady

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
~ John Constable

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~ Virginia Woolf

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.
~ Simone Weil

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Beauty is not real. Beauty only exists in perception.
~ Anonymous

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
~ Voltaire

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.
~ Franz Kafka

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
~ Jean Anouilh

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
~ Albert Camus

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
~ Henry Miller

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
~ Albert Einstein

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~ Leo Tolstoy