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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Paul Daley

In a distressing world, moments of beauty seem elusive. I found one in a Sydney theatre

Tim Minton performs in Sydney in 2020
‘The crowd […] was ready to be entertained by composer-musician-singer-comedian Tim Minchin. Levity and, yes, sage, calm perspective, was certainly in order.’ Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for AFI

Given humankind’s recent showcasing of its infinite capacity to inflict misery upon itself, joy sometimes seems so elusive as to be borderline extinct.

It sometimes feels near impossible to find moments of beauty, let alone a line of them, in such a distressing world. And, so, given that beauty may now be a unicorn, questing for it with earnest intent seems like something of a self-defeating enervation in itself.

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