The woman with the Silver Angel's face is dead.

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Older readers of this blog will remember a couple of entries about Trine Michelsen, Danish stripper, actress, and - to my mind - absolutely blinding beauty. I just learned that the bone cancer she had been suffering with the last seven years finally killed her early this year. I feel very sad and personally deprived. It is not very rational for me to feel so. If we had ever met, we would have had nothing to say to each other; our backgrounds and experiences, let alone our views of the world, were too distant; and my opinion is that, as is so often the case in our time, she wasted some very real talent in the wake of the misguided "sexual revolution". But she came as close to my ideal of beauty as any woman who ever lived; and beauty, while no merit, is nevertheless a treasure, precious, irreplaceable, a light in the world. I said a prayer for this tiny, tragic beauty - and may God have mercy on us all in the day of our deaths.

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[lazy-neutrino.livejournal.com]

She's got gorgeous cheekbones. I used to know someone who looked a little like this, but without those spectacular eyes.

I actually just popped across to ask if you'd received your springtime_gen assignment OK? I should probably do this with my mod hat on, but the personal touch feels more appropriate when it's somone like you that I already know.

I also took some time last night to read your education post - I waited till I had a brain, which takes a few weeks once I'm back at school. I won't contribute to the dicussion, but I found it interesting and there were some points I took away to chew over!

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Yes, I got it. I also visited my recipient's entry and got an idea for a story, though I am not sure I can make it work in a really affecting way. At present, it is only the skeleton of a plot.

I wish you would involve yourself more in these debates. You have the advantage of knowing things from the inside, and I would value your contribution. I was very disappointed when you never sent the follow-up to your comment on "Blair's legacy of dead kids". However, I cannot ask you to do something you find uncomfortable or undesirable.

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I'm afraid I really prefer to use LJ as a retreat from work and work-related issues (except the frivolous ones). I'm grateful for the fact that I have people on my flist who use journalling in different ways, and I read and lurk in a lot more places than I contribute. Sorry! But again thanks for the interesting posts that you do make, and I appreciate more than I can say that you don't put pressure on me to contribute.

And thanks also for the acknowledgement for springtime_gen. It was just in case an email hadn't got through.

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Oh, and as for Trine, that is a photo of her in her thirties. At eighteen, she was even lovelier. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of incredibly ugly photos of her in circulation - badly chosen wigs, caked-on make-up, and general vulgarity. It goes with her unfortunate trade. But my God, she was beautiful.