By the Chance

       Yet we are enthralled by the modern world, and struck by the chance that there may be great beauty in this ugliness after all .......

Gordon Theisen
from
Staying Up Much Too Late ; Edward Hopper's Nighthawks
and the Dark Side of the American Psyche
2006

   https://indyweek.com/culture/art/carrboro-s-gordon-theisen-discusses-power-pessimism/