from 'the new you'

philosophies

'i am convinced that all successful models--all beautiful women, for that matter--have one single thing in common. It isn't a perfect nose, a flawless skin, a refined bone structure; it is simply that they care'.

'measure your bust, waist and hips and compare them with the desirable proportions chart on page 36. if your proportions need work, don't be discouraged--there's hardly a model who started out perfect'.

'no matter what our life-style, we are all members of a vast legion of potential "fatties"'.

'i shudder to remember i weighed 149 pounds. today, i get vicarious appetite appeasement just remembering my favorite gourmet delicacies'.

exercises

'stand with your legs apart. bend forward from your waist and clasp a rod, rolling pin or ruler in your hands behing your back'.

'"deep breathing". one super exercise to practice in the kitchen or anywhere--anytime you think of it. it's an allover beauty exercise that benefits hair, skin and general health'.

golden rule

'desirable weight chart: for girls 18 to 25, subtract 1 pound for each year under 25. for girls planning a modeling career, subtract 8 to 10 pounds'.

a whale

in anticipation of my new zealand trip...

encore paris

Que veut dire aimer quelqu'un?

Toujours le saisir dans une masse, l'extraire d'un groupe, même restreint, auquel il participe, ne serait-ce que par sa famille ou par autre chose; et puis chercher ses propres meutes, les multiplicités qu'il enferme en lui, et qui sont peut-être d'une toute autre nature. Les joindre aux miennes, les faire pénétrer dans les miennes, et pénétrer les siennes. Célestes épousailles, multiplicités de multiplicités.

la modification 'en scène'

more gems emerging every day, almost

in doing my regular rounds of the internet, checking if any new videos have appeared with r-g, i found this one. a bizarre situation where robbe-grillet's famous gift for oration is slaughtered by the necessity of stopping after almost every sentence. i think he just wanted to get double the laughs as the french speakers understand then the english speakers catch up and laugh to. there’s waves of amusement and eventually everybody's happy together! the best thing tho’ is that it really does seem as though robbe-grillet can speak english but refuses to, and so he should! i mean they might misquote him. we see him listening attentively to make sure it's translated 'correctly'. robbe-grillet, master as always! it all makes for a wonderfully amusing video. especially when question time begins and we see people leaving, and when towards the end all of a sudden robbe-grillet doesn't understand the questions.

and in this video, robbe-grillet talks 'deleuze', which he thankfully tells everybody is a french philosopher, just for those of us who don't know. the concept he talks about is, of course, the same one that he has explained elsewhere.