Summary of Chloé Cooper Jones's Easy Beauty

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#1 The sculpture depicts a story from Roman mythology. One version goes like this: Pluto offends Venus, the goddess of love, and is punished by being transformed into a love-like madness. Proserpine, the daughter of the goddess Ceres, is nearby picking flowers.

#2 The sculpture of Proserpine is alive. Her body is strong, and she torques it forcefully against the god, trying to free herself. She smashes the hardest part of her palm into Pluto’s face. She is stupefied by awe, aversion, and desire.

#3 I was six when I held my father’s hand as he followed a red-haired woman around a department store. She was a stranger, but she regarded my father with a knowledge I didn’t understand. I watched my father follow her around the store, and I was confused.

#4 I was approached by a stranger who told me that the most beautiful part of the museum was the building itself. I didn’t agree, but I was polite. He went on to explain that people don’t realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669390541

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#1

The sculpture depicts a story from Roman mythology. One version goes like this: Pluto offends Venus, the goddess of love, and is punished by being transformed into a love-like madness. Proserpine, the daughter of the goddess Ceres, is nearby picking flowers.

#2

The sculpture of Proserpine is alive. Her body is strong, and she torques it forcefully against the god, trying to free herself. She smashes the hardest part of her palm into Pluto’s face. She is stupefied by awe, aversion, and desire.

#3

I was six when I held my father’s hand as he followed a red-haired woman around a department store. She was a stranger, but she regarded my father with a knowledge I didn’t understand. I watched my father follow her around the store, and I was confused.

#4

I was approached by a stranger who told me that the most beautiful part of the museum was the building itself. I didn’t agree, but I was polite. He went on to explain that people don’t realize that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

#5

The experience of beauty is a wonderful human experience, but many people are quick to reduce it to a single word: subjective.

#6

I was not aware that I was making a choice, and I did not see another option because I was not yet aware that I was capable of making another choice. I was not sensible or adventurous, and I was someone who could assemble excellent bibliography but not experience it.

#7

Beauty was once thought to be the result of definite measurement, but the mystery of the aesthetic experience was still present. It was a bodily recognition of beauty, and a physical seizing of beauty’s dissonance.

#8

I was born with a sacral agenesis, which means I was born without a sacrum, the bone that connects the spine to the pelvis. I had hip