Contents

1. Publisher’s Note
2.   1  On the Shoulders of Giants
3.   2  Beauty
4.   3  Ugliness
5.   4  The Absolute and the Relative
6.   5  Beautiful Flame
7.   6  The Invisible
8.   7  Paradoxes and Aphorisms
9.   8  Untruths, Lies, Falsifications
10.   9  On Some Forms of Imperfection in Art
11. 10  Some Revelations on Secrecy
12. 11  Conspiracy
13. 12  Representations of the Sacred
14. Bibliography
15. Index