Apr 25, 2011 14:49
She has the weirdest taste in bodies; she has perfectly reasonable taste in people, I guess, but the bodies attached are dramatic, non-standard, out on the fringes of the bell curve of acceptable. Perhaps she specifically seeks out these errant rocketships, but maybe it's just a coincidence, and the people she tends to like tend to, for unrelated reasons (or at least non-causal reasons), have these bodies. Or maybe the fact of knowing her makes one's body non-standard.
I mean, she also sort of likes non-standard minds, doesn't she? She tends towards the mentally ill and the genius (the groups do not always intersect, and some individuals, like myself, tend to fluctuate between the two without ever acheiving both at once), she makes claims about her loves' IQs (ridiculous and unfounded but still very flattering) and bemoans their instability. Is it possible that the errant bodies correspond completely with errant minds? It is hard to value her estimations with any illusions of objectivity or indeed any kind of objective reality, since she makes these claims about IQs and the attractiveness of certain women in sports bras, which are (largely) patently absurd.
I don't know how to sort her, insofar as I want to sort people. I don't, necessarily, want completely to sort her and leave her in one corner of the bucket. For one thing, it would be deeply unfair and uncomfortable for her; for another, I don't think it would be intellectually responsible to do so.