above: Cyclamen↗. My favorite flower. (large size 1024x768).
Xah Lee, 2005-09-18
above: Cyclamen↗. My favorite flower. (large size 1024x768).
a red flame, with her flamboyant skirt, flaring up for all to see, her beauty and heat.
above: i spend 1 hour trying to find a large version of this photo on the web to no avail. (for illustrating this page, juxtaposed with my photo of cyclamen and the poem.)
That's 2002 Feb cover of Haper's Bazaar mag, showing supermodel Gisele Bündchen in a red red dress. There are at least 4 versions of this cover but i'm looking for this particular one. I'm looking for a size at least 370 in width.
While looking for this cover, finding sites of mag covers, as well as for gathering resources for my commentary on women and ethology for my website, i have downloaded 686 mag covers from Allure↗, Harper's Bazaar↗, Cosmopolitan↗ Elle↗, Glamour↗, Vogue↗, Marie Claire↗, and others. (since i'm a insider of the web technology, i'm able to script and steal so to speak, instead of downloading click by click)
Women's periodicals. Such is quite interesting. Look at their covers, their texts, their concerns, desires, thoughts. Women, the frail half of the human sex, where, prettying themselves is the prime directive and competition in their lives.
Women, grew up amid a constant torrent of praises for their looks, and kindness, loveliness. Being a man, all my (and our) live(s) are man, and we grew up to a different tune. Tough and cocky and unforgiving and hard ball are the names of our game or tricks of survival. Inquiring on the pussy sex, one finds their mentalities quite fascinating, beside their bodies.
above: Flaming June, by Frederic Leighton↗ (1830-1896).
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