Re: The magic of conlang (was: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

Sally Caves scripsit:

> I didn't.  "Nature's beauty is skin deep."  Underneath the skin is a host of
> horrible little uglies, since it is universally true that parasites are not
> part of what is deemed beautiful and orderly.
Actually, I don't agree with you about parasites.  They too have their
place.  A parasite is sort of like AllNoun: stripped to the bare minimum
it needs to keep going, no redundant parts.

The distinction we're implicitly making, of course, is that called in
_Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ "classic beauty" vs. "romantic
beauty".  In music criticism I think it's called architecture vs. texture.

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