Purest delights, purest specimen

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

or is it so difficult to achieve the ideal?

At the moment of life's troubles and in anticipation of triumph, a woman, oddly enough, does the same thing. She first climbs into a hot bath with foam, and then for several hours in a row "takes care of herself" - that is. cherishes arms, legs, bust, shoulders, hair, etc. There are many component parts, therefore, depending on the thoroughness of processing and the length of the list, the process can take from an hour to infinity. The meaning of the performed rite is, in essence, the same: as a result, to please (amaze, charm, leave in the fools) Him, the only one.

No doubt, the goal is laudable. However, this whole complex ritual could be optimized by getting creative. For example, determine in advance what a loved one likes most in women. Legs? And work on the beauty of your legs, sparing no effort and time. And reduce everything else to the usual morning procedures: lightly brush with a toothbrush over the teeth, and a massage brush over the head. The whole question is how to determine what to highlight and what to neglect. I repeat, you need to be creative - for example, to analyze the attitude of Russian writers to various female charms.

So, let's start with the eyeswhich are known to be the mirror of the soul. What literary heroine is first of all remembered in connection with the eyes? To me - Princess Marya from the novel "War and Peace" by Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy. As you know, Princess Marya was ugly, awkward, with a heavy gait, but with a pure and sublime soul. The latter expressed itself in "beautiful, radiant eyes." So I think, maybe you need less mascara? But seriously, eyes are like lakes - this is, of course, wonderful, but our beloved female ideal of half-face eyes has little to do with reality. And if this ideal is nevertheless persistently implemented, then you will get a classic Soviet saleswoman from a grocery store with amazing blue-green eyes that smoothly flow into her ears.

The description of noses does little comfort for women. - after all, either the nose is good, and then its owner is frankly proud of it, and turns any comparisons in their favor. Or the nose is not what we would like, it can be corrected only by plastic surgery. Examples from the classics can serve as a little consolation. For example, the femme fatale Polozova (Turgenev, "Spring Waters") had a thick nose, which did not prevent her from crossing the path to the beautiful Gemma. I am sure there are many such examples. So, if it is comforting, feel free to get down to business.

Fashion for the mouth over the past century has changed monstrously … If at the beginning of the twentieth century the mouth was supposed to be the size of a pinhead, then since Kim Bessinger became the star of the screen, everyone began to draw lips according to the principle "the more, the better." Against the background of such a fashion, it is difficult to understand that the big mouth of Natasha Rostova from the same novel "War and Peace" is a serious flaw by the standards of her contemporaries. And nevertheless, Tolstoy, periodically emphasizing "ugliness", makes Natasha a woman undoubtedly attractive. As a distraction, I will say that I know more than one foreign woman named Natasha in honor of the heroine of the novel "War and Peace". Moreover, they were very surprised when they were informed that Natasha is a derivative of Natalia, a name that is quite common in Europe.

So, summing up the information obtained as a result of literary research, we have: nose, mouth and legs can be anything. It is better not to burden either the waist or the hips with extra pounds. Eyes and shoulders are a matter of taste, but a corset is worth considering. But we already knew all this. Then what new could the classics tell us?

It seems to me that literary heroes are like football teams. For some hour I was asking my husband about the principle on which people become fans of this or that club - and, unfortunately, I still did not understand. Apparently, the story is the same with literary characters. We sympathize with them, as well as with real people, for reasons we ourselves hardly understand. And appearance is like a design style: it can be Empire, or it can be modern. Exclusively a tribute to the owner's fashion and taste.