Morton 88: "Beauty is a strange experience [...] I can't grasp the beauty experience without ruining it, so I need to leave it alone in its deep ambiguity, an ambiguity I often experience as a floating sadness"
"Sadness is beauty in all its spectral strangeness"
He quotes a Doctor Who episode: "Sad is happy for deep people" (lol)
104: "Beauty is slightly disgusting or weird or fascinating"
105: "In an ecological age, where there is no one true and proper scale, beauty will be appreciated along with its halo of weirdness or disgust. This kind of beauty is X-beauty, just like a lifeform is always an X-lifeform" (see "X-species")