Every creature on Earth asks the same question: "Do you find me beautiful?"

"Every creature on earth is offering itself. Pitiable, ingenuous, it is offering itself. I exist, here I am, with this face, this body, this smell. From Napolean to Lenin and Stalin, from the lowest whore in the street to the Mongoloid child, from Greta Garbo to a stray dog, this is truly the sole and perpetual question every living creature is asking every other: Do you find me beautiful?"

Elsa Morante
Italian Novelist
in "Aracoeli"

"Ingenuous" means candid, innocent, sincere.​
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This quote, and those that follow in succeeding posts, indicate my act of rebellion against the prudishness, joylessness and fundamentalism of our current academic climate, which - like the worst aspects of puritanical religion - attempts to make us cower in shame and denies the humanity of us all.

Photos: Desert Paintbrush and South Window, Arches National Park, UT; Tiger Swallowtail butterfly, Professor Creek, near Moab, UT; Archaic Barrier Canyon rock art, Sego Canyon, UT; Curious lizard, Professor Creek, UT. These photos were taken on April 23-25, 2016

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