Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
That definition is what was discussed in this thread and alleged to be anything but beautiful.
I've been in museums in europe where they proudly display ornate swords and armor as "beautiful". I always kinda thought otherwise, because all that decoration and encrustation was not what the weapon was for. More interesting were the weapons with a single minded deadliness to them. I suppose it's the engineer in me <g>.
