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"Now that he could see her a lot plainer, mostly because she was advancing towards him across the room, and in the light-headed way of people who think they're just about to die he realized that she was quite good-looking if considered over several centuries. Concepts of beauty change over the years, and two hundred years ago Sacharissa's eyes would have made the great painter Caravati bite his brush in half; three hundred years ago the sculptor Mauvaise would have taken one look at her chin and dropped his chisel on his foot; a thousand years ago the Ephebian poets would have agreed that her nose alone was capable of launching at least forty ships. And she had good medieval ears." -- The Truth by Terry Pratchett
Can you see why I love this guy? I, personally, have a nose the Romans would have loved, the high forehead and pallor the Victorians prized, and the, shall we say, girth that was popular with the nobility until very recently. Physically speaking, I was so born in the wrong century!
Can you see why I love this guy? I, personally, have a nose the Romans would have loved, the high forehead and pallor the Victorians prized, and the, shall we say, girth that was popular with the nobility until very recently. Physically speaking, I was so born in the wrong century!