posted by ttractor @ 12:44 PM
jolie laide
I started this when I lived in Brooklyn and struggled for grace in a city that grants moments of beauty and ugliness breathtakingly close to one another. Now I live in a place where things are a different kind of ugly and the beauty is pedestrian. I struggle with that.
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yeah, you are right. I was cheating and taking a short cut. I didn't want anyone to confuse "pretty-ugly" with "pretty ugly" ya know?
I thought English was irritatingly inprecise, so at various points I have spent some time with French, Italian, Spanish, German and Russian.
I haven't ever really found a single language that says everything I want it to. So sometimes I take a picture, or make one in my head. Or the expression is in the way I am trying to absorb something or someone, by looking, by sense.
not a whole lot of guys in my French classes--too wimpy. They all took Latin, which I now wish I had!
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