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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: Appreciation of the big & beautiful woman
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 14:53:14 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.233013.25101@news.acns.nwu.edu> beartwo@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Audrey Davis) writes:
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- >>For good fiction that contains big, beautiful female characters, try
- >>reading Naguib Mahfouz's Cairo trilogy: "Palace Walk," "Palace of
- >>Desire," and "Sugar Street." It takes place in Egypt in the 20s and 30s,
- >>and the sexy women are all REAL large. Very heartening.
-
- >I noticed the same thing when I was in Puerto Rico. I wear anything from
- >size 9 to 12, depending on how it's cut. I felt self conscious in my (one
- >piece) bathing suit, but all the men (my husband included :-)!) kept
- >staring at me. It took me awhile to realize why.
-
- Hi, Audrey.
-
- No offense, but I'm talking about women _much_ larger than you. In
- "Palace Walk," for example, one of the main characters is lusting after
- various women who drive him crazy -- all of whom have "voluminous folds of
- flesh", tip the carriages they alight from, and weigh around 300 pounds.
- This was a beauty standard in Egypt during that period. When I was in
- Africa, it still held: I got on a bus once with a bunch of drunk men (I
- was the only woman) who didn't even look at me. I had lost weight due to
- illness and probably weighed around 130. At one point during the trip,
- they suddenly started to shout and clutch their heads and pant out the
- windows. We pulled over and picked up a VERY large woman -- yes, the bus
- did tip when she got on. The men were in a state of ecstasy. She got on
- the bus with the most smug look on her face you ever saw, swung her hips,
- and settled her ample self down on the seat(s) with a sensuous wiggle. I
- never saw grown men in such a state.
-
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- --
- The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
- if only from time to time. -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
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