Beauty

Question 1

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone.

Answer 1

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

Question 2

“The thing with the new world,”

Answer 2

“The thing with the new world,” the tuba had said once, “is it’s just horrifically short on elegance.”

Question 3

What was lost in the collapse:

Answer 3

What was lost in the collapse: almost everything, almost everyone, but there is still such beauty.

Question 4

the only person I know who carries a

Answer 4

Diallo: the only person I know who carries a paperweight… an unusual gift for a child
Raymonde: I thought it was beautiful. I still think it’s beautiful

Question 5

Audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare

Answer 5

Audiences seemed to prefer Shakespeare “People want what was best about the world” – Dieter

Question 6

There seemed to be a limitless number of objects in the world that had no practical use

Answer 6

There seemed to be a limitless number of objects in the world that had no practical use but that people wanted to preserve: cell phones…iPads… stilettos… beautiful and strange