A dirty square tile has a clean wet stripe down it, with a single droplet suspended above against a dark background.

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Macbeth · 1623

William Shakespeare

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The line blurs the boundary between good and bad, suggesting that what looks fair may be corrupt and what seems foul may be fair. It creates an unsettling world of reversals where appearances cannot be trusted and moral categories slip into one another.

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