"simplify, simplify, simplify."

- thoreau

The darkness darkened.
Oh, the horror, the horror.
It was horrible.

("Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness")

--David M. Bader in Haiku U: From Aristotle to Zola, 100 Great Books in 17 Syllables.

"...it's when things look strange that we see them most clearly."

-Lord Stephen in At the Crossing Places by Kevin Crossley Holland

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

- Albert Einstein

More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.

--P.T. Barnum

apparently we are working again... extraciting. Who knows what happened there 'eh. ohh well. Maybe if I add a new quote, someone else will follow suit


...Clean up complexion, soften eye lines, soften smile line, add color to lips, trim chin, remove neck lines, soften line under ear lobe, add highlights to earrings, add blush to cheek, clean up neck line, remove stray hair, remove hair strands from dress, adjust color and add hair on top of head, add dress on side to create better line... Total: $1,525.00.

The invoice for retouching the cover photo of Michelle Pfeiffer, in the December 1990, issue of Esquire magazine, obtained by Harper's. The photo's caption reads, "What Michelle Pfeiffer Needs...Is Absolutely Nothing."

Does this work again?