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[January 9th, 2008 @ 9:50pm] |
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SHE WAS A SHOCK TO KATIE, AT FIRST -- LIKE A STARKLY LIT, UNFORGIVING PHOTOGRAPH OF ONESELF. BUT THEN KATIE BEGAN TO NOTICE ALL THE EXTERIOR, HUMAN INFORMATION, NOT EXPLICITLY IN THE FRAME BUT IMPLIED BY WHAT WE SEE THERE. KATIE IS MOVED BY TEH CRENULATED MARKS OF ABSENT STOCKINGS ON HER LEGS, THE MUSCLES IN HER ARMS SUGGESTIVE OF MANUAL LABOUR. THAT LOOSE BELLY THAT HAS KNOWN MANY BABIES, THAT STILL FRESH FACE THAT HAS LURED MEN IN THE PAST AND MAY YET LURE MORE. KATIE -- A STRINGBEAN, PHYSICALLY -- CAN EVEN SEE HER OWN BODY CONTAINED IN THIS BODY, AS IF REMBRANDT WERE SAYING TO HER, AND TO ALL WOMEN: "FOR YOU ARE OF THE EARTH, AS MY NUDE IS, AND YOU WILL COME TO THIS POINT TOO, AND BE BLESSED IF YOU FEEL AS LITTLE SHAME, AS MUCH JOY, AS SHE!"
ON BEAUTY, ZADIE SMITH.
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