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Hi everyone! I've had grown out pinkies for awhile, and in the past few months started letting my other nails grow. I was initially planning on sharpening all but the pinkies (alá vintagedusties's nails), but started to be afraid of shaping them. Do you think it would look really strange, or sort of avant-garde chic? And for those with stilletos, do you feel that hardener is important for keeping a point w/o breakage?
I was recently rewatching my favorite period piece, Barry Lyndon, and was paying especial attention to the black beauty patches many of the libertine-types wear, which I was already aware of as an 18th century trend, but had never seriously consider before. Through a little research, I learned that about what materials beauty patches were oftenbeen made of, but so little about how they were attached to the face! The only tid-bit I got was an article that offhandly read "mastic or saliva," with no other context. Does anyone know of any sources or factoids which may be helpful? Thank!
I was looking at Karlheinz Weinberger's fascinating photography of Swiss "Rebel Youths," and kept seeing these medallions and (what appear to be homemade) belt-buckles with the likenesses of Elvis, James Dean, etc. on them.
I'm so curious: does anyone have information on the provenance of these, or likely manners of construction, or anything about how one might either re-create or get one's on hands on something like these.
This is more a question for non-U.S. people, but if you have some special insight, feel free to share!
So, the question is: To what degree is classic American literature considered, on the global scale, classic?
Works from many places, of course, reach far, far, far beyond their place of origin. See: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Waste-Land, and countless others. I assume some American works have pretty global reach (Moby Dick and Faulkner come to mind), but surely there is a degree to which American literature is native. For example, Walt Whitman is a household name in the States, and most any school-kid is made to read him at one time or another. If you said "Whitman" in, for example, England, would there be that immediate association to Walt Whitman? Or say, the same for Dickinson, or Hawthorne, or Uncle Tom's Cabin,... etc., etc.!
I think there is a general assumption that Americans think that their culture is widely known, or otherwise the status quo. To give us some credit, the United States is an incredibly varied country (not to say more varied than others), and this does extend to literature. Even within the U.S., it can be a sort of regional thing. Eudora Welty, for example, is an author I'm sure is much more popular in the Southern states than anywhere else. As an American, it can be really hard to gauge like ... if what is popular here is popular anywhere else, because one can spend their entire life--very easily--without ever having visited another country, or even having left the few states around them.
Let me know!