New York Fashion Week is underway (above from Jason Wu's Friday night runway show). In nature beauty often travels with the Good. But there is also beauty that warns as there is beauty that entices. The beauty of human forms - born or crafted - may inspire good or its opposite, but are in themselves spirtually agnostic.

Alex in Clockwork Orange listening to the Beethoven Ninth Symphony: "Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!"