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Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
3 Jan 2024

Aphrodite's Girdle

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Aphrodite's Girdle , contributed by Mary Metzer to The Museum of Fictional Literary Artifacts [1]     I.    The girdle has a long, lon...
6 Nov 2023

It Was Beauty Killed the Beast

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"It wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast."       I.    One of the greatest movies ever made opened in New York...
19 Feb 2022

Reflections on Venus Emerging Slowly From an Old Bathtub

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The Venus of Willendorf [1] Image: Naturhistorisches Museum Wien nhm-wien.ac.at     I.   I recently reflected on how the figure of a woman...
28 Jul 2020

Reflections on the Woman with the Heart Shaped Face

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Sylvia Sidney: The Woman with the Heart Shaped Face Is this the perfect female face? I suppose it depends on who you ask - tho...
24 Sept 2018

D. H. Lawrence and E. M. Cioran on Sex Appeal and the Beauty of Flames

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Image: Desktop Nexus I. Sex on Fire  Just as for Lawrence sex and beauty are one and the same thing, so too is being something he ...
6 Sept 2017

A New Entry in the Big Book of Little Girls: Alma Deutscher (The Prodigy)

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Photo of Alma Deutscher   By Anna Huix (2016) I. One of the books I would still like to write, is my Big Book of Little Girls ...
18 Jan 2017

Anatomy Presupposes a Waxwork Venus

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Clemente Susini: Venerina (1782) Bella Italia! Terra d'amore! And home also to some of the most exquisite art works depi...
6 Aug 2014

On the Joy of Flirting and the Experience of Beauty

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  Ayaan Hirsi Ali   Flirting is one of the great joys of life, which, regardless of intent, is always an innocent form of sex...
1 Jun 2014

Aly Buttons: On Her Lumpiness and Loveliness

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Photo by Nina Lin (2011) Not all young women can be stick thin like fashion models. But this doesn't mean that they...