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healthy habits….

Is health necessary? Is civilization dangerous to our health? History is littered with health fads, a reflection of the anxiety about health as an inevitable component of civilized life where the quest for the pure and healthful takes on all … Continue reading

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Apostles of a new order: structural linguistics

The apostles of Structural Linguistics might still have confined their interests to the teaching of foreign languages had it not been for the extremely influential work of Professor Charles Carpenter Fries of the University of Michigan, a prolific writer who … Continue reading

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toe biz: the shoe comes before the foot

…Since wearing shoes is synonymous with wearing bad shoes,the modern shoe inevitably becomes an instrument of deformation. The very concept of the modern shoe does not admit of an intelligent solution; it is not made to fit a human foot … Continue reading

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fashionable bodies

No shoe was too bone breaking, nor corset too breathtaking, nor bodily alteration too excruciating fro man not to have tried it out in his continuing pursuit of the fashionable body. The urge to alter his body is felt by … Continue reading

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the classic coquette: and the classic dupe

Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic coquette, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… While most of the noble and the good are forgotten, naughty … Continue reading

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the fifties: nobody’s mad at nobody

Like no other decade, the 1950’s incarnated the process of myth making in a very conspicuous manner into rosy myths in the shadows of unrosy reality that has resulted in some enduring Great Revivals that have tended to get out … Continue reading

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boxing day

Boxing day, or more presciently, with regard to customer traffic, the boxing day riots in China would be a good metaphor for the hoped for hoofing of shoes, boots, snow shoes and mucklucks that could be used as hooves for … Continue reading

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couch sweet potatoes

Two undraped ladies; each with troubles enough of their own. Not only look-alikes but contemporaries, each of them took a prominent part in a minor revolution. Adah Menken was a kind of nineteenth-century Marilyn Monroe, and like her a peripheral … Continue reading

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6 degrees of derealization

Its a paradox of sorts, that the great technology of reproduction which ostensibly is supposed to serve memory, in fact tends to make us forget what is memorable: namely a real experience, a conjunction of thought processes and emotions reduced … Continue reading

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A toast to dorian gray

Is our post-modern condition characterized by an instilling of youthfulness into an ancient world. A rejuvenation of creaky old bones. Baudelaire wrote of youth as a sort of priesthood, at least according to the young. Youth is a fetish, a … Continue reading

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