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“It was wholly unlike the ‘Permitted Style’, and she could see the people’s awe and distant wonder…” Introduction S. had a large, square, middle-aged face, with a massive projecting nose and long-lashed, pale blue eyes. When she was smiling to herself, her face shone pink and childish. She was like one of those extinct birds, the Alagoas foliage-gleaner, once found in northeast Brazil, because she wore that elaborate hairstyle of a curiously improbable shade of orange. S. used to dress as if she had no sense of proportion, but that was not her fault. The colors were always pyrotechnical, and t ..read more

“There is no place for guilt in the pursuit of perfection…” Introduction P. is a gifted being. She’s a clever girl – with a strong will and a high temper. She is better worth looking at than most works of art. P. is a middle-aged woman of many fitness theories. Her imagination in that respect is remarkably active. She has a fixed determination to regard sport as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action. Now P. knows that it is detestable to be afraid or ashamed of her body. This life-changing understanding came with physical pain and spiritual tension. Every moment of l ..read more

“The voice of natural water sounds silver and life…” Introduction Five friends, and five personifications of extraordinarity, extreme extravagance, and exquisite exclusiveness. And ‘Yes’ all five are the Ex-es of former husbands and wives. What in the Universe can they all have in common? Water! To be more exact, $900 that they pay for 8.4oz of pure water that exists in a very remote place in Venezuela. It just tickles me to death to tell you the back- and fore-story of these very well-off people – very well-off indeed they are. A – a High-class jeweler, B – an owner of a High-end shopping ce ..read more

“Receive life with much philosophy and nature…” Introduction G. shuffled through life most of the time being far gone indeed. His mood being as dark as the grave, his face being as weary as the days of his past, and his voice as harsh as the hollow moaning of the damp unwholesome wind. He was not yet past 36 and the earth and life itself seemed not his element anymore. The expression in his eyes was scarcely of his age or of the world. So many shadows from the past played about his face that G’s smile, above all, was the worst evidence of artless pain and misery. The horrors of the war left no ..read more

“Take the misery of negative self-judgment in a luxuriously calm refuge-island of self-compassion…” Introduction It is difficult to assign any precise age to V. because he is so full of the ignorance and illusions of youth. His eye alight with certain native intelligence making him a fair example of the erudite class. His mission in life is to draw little audible links, chaining together great inaudible feelings of self-compassion and self-esteem. V’s Ph.D. dissertation on this subject is but the vague shadow of the volumes he has to say. This mental activity was instigated by an economic cris ..read more

Spend precious moments stubbornly biting your lips, speaking sternly, and acting openly… Introduction D. is above the average in height of his statue and in the firmness of his mind. A man of fixed principles and strong habits, he is intolerant of people whose words are cheaper than deeds. He was not like that in the early days of his youth. One incident, that almost ruined his happiness, forever imprinted in his heart an aversion to people deprived of true nobility of soul. Finding himself deceived, duped, and hopeless he learned to avoid provokingly mindless, heartless, and artificial specim ..read more

“My kind of loneliness rather aggravated than relieved the gloom of my life,” said K., muttering a curse upon his chosen solitude. Introduction K. stole cautiously towards my secluded bench in the middle of my family’s little island of sunflowers in their utmost bloom and richness of color. One would be almost invisible amongst those kingly looking plants with their golden crowns and massive leaves. K.’s frank and handsome face, fringed with a fine black beard, was a trifle over-serious for his eight and twenty. He was well-nigh alien to this stunning and bewildering scene, his gloominess quit ..read more