The cat has taken to lying on my shoulder bag next to me and moaning while I am at the computer. It is low and irritating.
Today I will try to muster up the psychological wherewithal to maintain a fast. I prepared last night by having only two scotches. I was not going to drink at all, but I ate a salad that I thought might be bad and was in need of alcohol to kill any potential germs. Today will be miserable. No--tonight will be. I must make my body begin to cannibalize itself. It is a strange thought. Let it feed upon itself today as my mind will on its own psyche. Once many years ago in college, I fasted for three days. When the toxins began to release from old fat cells, I experienced quite a time and space distortion. This will be nothing like that, only a whining misery.
That is what the cat is doing, not moaning but whining. She needs to quit that.
maybe the cat should be on a fast as well...though that may increase the whining...good luck!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo!
ReplyDeleteThe woman is very beautiful.
What a body.
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This is a very fine picture, though it is not beauty that I see in it but rather very interesting form, almost to the point of oddity, perhaps just past.
ReplyDeleteWas it Bacon who said that, "There is no beauty beyond strangeness of proportion." Or, "Without some strangeness of proportion."
Something like that... if I could only remember the things that I used to easily shed.
R, She would leave me.
ReplyDeleteN and Q, She is a mother of two children in their twenties and she did not have them when she was especially young. We are prejudiced toward youth, of course, but overly so I think, so that as we age, we begin to believe we must hide ourselves from view. Especially the flesh. I love shooting both young and old, though you can imagine which is more likely to offer. I want to say things visually about the human condition. I need to shoot more men, I think. It should be my duty to provide the broadest spectrum. O.K. then.
I think that if you fail to see the beauty in a lush body like this woman has, it's a form of poverty. I think she looks wonderful! And I would prefer a night with her over a night with any young little chicken, for sure! It would be paradise.
ReplyDeleteMen have boring bodies.
But, Selavy, if you would start with self portraits, I'm all for it!
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Perhaps it is similar to the poverty of the emoticon.
ReplyDelete:-P
ReplyDelete@Sean Q6: Want to wish you a too late 'happy birthday' Sean Q6.
ReplyDeleteHappy birthday! And good luck with everything, like the little one.
Never too old to become a father, I would say.
Sorry to have annoyed you.
This is the way I show my affection to people, annoying them.'
Ask Selavy... he knows...
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Sorry, Selavy, just hoping that you don't mind...
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:-P (One for Sean)
It was merely a misunderstanding. I find the image to be beautiful. It is why I qualified it with the quote, "In all beauty there is some strangeness in proportion."
ReplyDeleteI find it to be strange, and beautiful. The model is secondary to me.
.. and thank-you for the b-day well-wishes. I am very excited about the coming baby as well. Perhaps soon I will have a whole new conception of beauty....
ReplyDeleteYes Sean, you will be lost.
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
Thanks for reassuring me.
Thought I blew it big time with you.
And I like you, your writing, a lot.
If Selavy keeps on like this on his blog, giving us nothing to read.
I will start following yours.
"-))