Art and the Triumph of Beauty Over Horror

Can you hear the bells ringing in the graveyard?

Ryan Frawley
Counter Arts
Published in
5 min readMay 1, 2024

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“And what, finally, he felt, understood, and enjoyed, sitting there with folded hands, looking into the black slats of the jalousies whence it all issued, was the triumphant idealism of the music, of art, of the human spirit; the high and irrefragable power they had of shrouding with a veil of beauty the vulgar…

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Ryan Frawley
Counter Arts

Novelist. Essayist. Former entomologist. Now a full-time writer exploring travel, art, philosophy, psychology, and science. www.ryanfrawley.com