Apr 19 2019, Fraih, “MRW I got a prescription for fem&m's after my first endo appointment without any gatekeeping.”, in Reddit, traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns, archived from the original on 2022-08-18:

Aristotle, Alhazen, Vitello, and others … hold, that sight is made by reception, and not by extramission; by receiving the rays of the object into the eye, and not be sending any out.

It seems to me that mere unmixed ugliness does not arise from sharp angles, or from any sudden variation, but rather from that want of form, that unshapen lumpish appearance, which, perhaps, no one word exactly expresses; a quality that never can be mistaken for beauty, never can adorn it, and which is equally unconnected with the sublime and the picturesque.

I correspond with a great number of scientifictionists, and I know they have remarked to me a number of times that AMAZING STORIES ran letters of theirs nine or ten months after they had been submitted.