Sans Souci

All these neighborhoods and apartment buildings named Sans Souci. One of those true beauties anchored in the constancy of its opposite. 

seen

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and even more in the collective eyes of a group that settles on ways and kinds of beauty.  The flower, if it felt, would not feel beautiful, but rushed, desperate, exposed to danger and stuck.

thin

I do not think that money is a creature of law.  But I do think that money, that engine of abstraction, is  controlled by law in the way that valves control a steam engine.  Law does not provide the heat, nor the steam, nor is it at the piston of production.  But none of this would cohere into something as (relatively) tight and (relatively) stable and (altogether) ordered as a steam engine without the valves, nor would wealth cohere into so an economy as this without law.  Of course, steam sees valves as interference.