Upon a day Beauty and Ugliness met on the shore of a sea. And they said to one another, “Let us bathe in the sea.”
Then they disrobed and swam in the waters. And after a while Ugliness came back to shore and garmented himself with the garments of Beauty and walked away.
And Beauty too came out of the sea, and found not her raiment, and she was too shy to be naked, therefore she dressed herself with the raiment of Ugliness. And Beauty walked her way.
And to this very day men and women mistake the one for the other.
Yet some there are who have beheld the face of Beauty, and they know her notwithstanding her garments. And some there be who know the face of Ugliness, and the cloth conceals him not from their eyes.
~Kahlil Gibran – From the Wanderer.
Afterthoughts... 
Very deep. Good to promote debate here.
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Yes…..in the nature of Gibran to do that…. 😉
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nice Gibran passage.
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Always something to glean from his writings. 🙂
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very true…
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like the blond joke a lot….jokes are good
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Yes…even when repeated. Some are better than others, though. 😉
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not being a blonde or ever having been one, I find this joke very amusing. 🙂
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