Perfumes: the Guide

1 And the authors suggest that perfume has little to do with sexual attraction. "If you want to get laid wear a tiny skirt, big hair and a perfume detectable by a potential beau who has just sunk six pints of lager." This is invaluable counsel that I shall be sure to act on.

2后台脱光了的模特为什么不撩人

Why Naked Models Backstage Aren’t Erotic？

being around rooms filled with unclad women and men is anything but stimulating.At least this is true for people in the fashion business, who are either puritanically decorous about nudity or so involved with clothes that often they can barely see the naked limbs for all the glorious weeds

When you see some doll walking down the catwalk in some sheer thing or nearly naked, it’s fashion,” Mr. Blanks remarked in Paris last week. “If you saw that same girl pole dancing in a club, it would be hot.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/09/fashion/09naked.html?_r=1&ref=fashion&oref=slogin

But you know what else makes the situation not sexy? A lot of these girls are in their TEENS.

1 Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland Random House, ￡12.99 

 There is also good stuff on the origin of the name Brontë, and the proper way to shoot yourself in the head

2 which types of brand will prosper in the coming economic downturn?

Here's a clue. When the first effort in Congress to pass a bail-out failed on September 29th, all the top 500 listed companies in America dropped, except one. It was the Campbell Soup Company.

Prepare for an age of soup and Scotch.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2009/2008/10/soup_and_scotch.cfm

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/11/julian-baggini

1 Curiosities of Literature by John Sutherland Random House, ￡12.99 

 There is also good stuff on the origin of the name Brontë, and the proper way to shoot yourself in the head

2 which types of brand will prosper in the coming economic downturn?

Here's a clue. When the first effort in Congress to pass a bail-out failed on September 29th, all the top 500 listed companies in America dropped, except one. It was the Campbell Soup Company.

Prepare for an age of soup and Scotch.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2009/2008/10/soup_and_scotch.cfm

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/11/julian-baggini

小说家喜欢借着描述行为和语言，来表示人已经改变了。沃尔夫先生也想这么做，但总是回头去描述外表。到头来我们是否相信雪曼已经改变，根本无关紧要（这样反而好，因为我们不相信）。我们相信他拼过命就行了。

有这种奇怪的感觉，也许是因为书中似乎没有任何角色脱离作者的意志而独立存在，在腔调、服装、阶级或处境之外，没有一个角色有足够的深度来说服读者，人是可以改变的。他们都是时尚或者其他外表影响力的受害者。

 More than 100 years before, Anthony Trollope similarly satirised London in The Way We Live Now: "Dishonesty magnificent in its proportions has become so rampant and so splendid that there seems to be reason for fearing that men and women will be taught to feel that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable."