VLVL2(10) Ditzah's Disguise
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 31 09:21:34 CST 2003
She looks like an "average suburban mom."
Yet Prairie thinks she may be wearing a disguise.
Why not?
Her father puts on a dress and it isn't even Halloween.
Doesn't stop him from judging I-24 by his haircut and hockey mask.
DL's narrative, we suspect has been Stencilized. She doesn't enough
impersonations and wears as many disguises anyway. Is she practicing
Cherrycoke's historical histrionics?
Fetishism and Decadence: Salome's Severed Heads
Charles Bernheimer
Etymologically, the fetish is a decadent object. The word comes from the
Portuguese feitigo, "artificial, skillfully contrived," which in turn
derives from the Latin facticius, "made by art." The sense of human
fabrication as
opposed to biological origin, of cultural signs replacing natural
substance, is at the basis of other words in the Romance languages
deriving from the same Latin root: Spanish afeitor, "to make up, adorn,
embellish," and afeite, "dress, ornament, cosmetics"; French feint,
"feigned, simulated." Furthermore, the French word moquilloge,
"makeup," is semantically connected to "fetish" through the Germanic
root maken, "to make." As a verb, maquiller, like the words deriving
from focticius, suggests not just painting one's face but also to fake,
disguise, mask.
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