VV(6) - Cultural Harmony

[David Morris]

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(103) an ideal of nasal beauty established by movies, advertisements, 
magazine illustrations.  Cultural harmony, Schoenmaker called it.
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True Confession:

When I was very young I was subject to lobbying by my elders as to my future 
career, especially by my step-grandfather.  He was a semi-ne'er-do-well who 
waited for his father to die for an inheritance not worth such anticipation. 
  He wanted better for me.

He wanted me to be an MD.  He bought me a chemistry set, a microscope, books 
on anatomy and astronomy.  I took all the ingredients of the chemistry set 
and mixed them all together.  I wanted an explosion!  Nothing happened.  
Eventually I also realized that I wasn't too excited about cutting people 
open either.  But I did harbor thoughts about becomming a plastic surgeon...

I would look at people's faces on the street, and I would mentally 
reconstruct them.  Face-sculpting was my temporary fantasy.  I am still 
fascinated with faces.  I draw them now, and so I reconstruct them to my 
liking.  But the best ones are those with uncommon features.  I can draw 
strange faces all day long.  Beautiful faces also have their strange side, 
but their owners are usually very hostile to seeing that side drawn on 
paper...

DM
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