Title: A lovely and intriguing book
Product review: The reviewer below clearly has a problem with Scarry: after all, enough scathing articles have certainly been written about Peter Singer. The reviewer equally clearly has a problem with the English language, since Scarry's tiny book -- 8 oz., 5" by 7 1/2" -- is by no stretch of the imagination a "tome." Now, stretching the imagination is what "On Beauty" is all about -- how beauty can, among other things, inspire us to creation. Connect-the-dots logicians, quite naturally, will not approve, but they can't see the point for the dots. One may agree or disagree with Scarry's thesis, but wholesale dismissal of the kind below simply smacks of bad faith. Fitting that a book about beauty should so clearly expose the ugliest in its detractors.
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