She who used to be the beautiful heaulmière--By Auguste Rodin vanemden/books/heaulmiere.html Ben: “You know I wouldnt be rude to the old woman who posed for that. What I cant understand is a so-called artist having the gall to pose somebodys great grandmother in her skin . . . and you having the bad taste to want it around . . . ” Jubal: “Anyone can see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl she used to be. A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesnt matter to you and me—but it does to them. Look at her!” Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land vanemden/books/heaulmiere.html
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