Re: virus: beauty meme

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Tue, 28 Apr 98 18:52:19 -0400


>Anyway, I could use help with three things:
>
>1> defining the meme
>2> Identifying the sources and outlets for the meme
>3> Innoculating against the meme (assuming I start from birth)
>
>
>Any thoughts?

Gack!

Take us closer to shore first....

Some random quatrains-

Beauty 'tis of course in the eyes of the beholder, unless the beholder is
blinded by the meme of which you speak.

The main raison d'etre behind fashion beauty is youth. Youth is vital. It
is also fleeting, like a confession.

Desmond Morris notwithstanding, I have always admired a woman's back, it
is where the more subtle differences are to be found. Of course, I was
bottle-fed....

I have never fallen in love with beauty, but I can find all facets of
beauty in the one I love.

Then again, I don't really think I am infected....

Then again, I can help you find the Glamour 'don'ts' in any crowd....

I'm one of them.

I also have two daughters, who will invariably face this blank stare
directed at a facade, and who will turn to me and ask- 'Daddy, why don't
they see _me_?'

- 'They have not yet raised their eyes to see anything.'

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