{Love and Sex (3) [continued]}[1st August 1989]

[Redbook6:177-178][19890801:1226b]{Love and Sex (3) [continued]}[1st August 1989]

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[continued]

I have certainly* known that disinterested love of the body and the Spirit and Soul expressed by it;** in childhood, in youth, and when full-grown; for my parents, for my brothers and sisters and some other relations, at various earlier times; and now, of course, for my wife and my two young children, who are all three more beautiful to me than any official definition of beauty could possibly circumscribe.*** And the key to that beauty, I believe, is the light of the eyes, and the communication of that light; although I have no doubt also that (for example) the blind have other measures for spiritual beauty of the body, and other means of communicating it.

*[See last previous entry]

**[it = the body, presumably]

***{cf [[Redbook6:8][19881015:1255d]{Beauty}[15th October 1988], ] 8,

[[Redbook6:99-100)][19890219:1218g]{Grace and Beauty}[19th February 1989],] 99}

{→ [[Redbook6:181-185][19890802:1232]{Love and Sex (3) [continued]}[2nd August 1989],] 181}

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