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

[fpb]

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.

Comments

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

I am sorry for your loss (it doesn't matter if it doesn't seem rational that this is a personal loss; some times people we don't know just are important to us). At least she goes on in a way through your Silver Angel.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

There is actually something dreadfully prophetic in the Silver Angel mythology which I elaborated years ago. There actually are two Silver Angels - mortal and immortal - they are twin sisters. And the mortal Silver Angel dies of cancer at 48 after years of suffering. Trine was 43. And I came up with that story in the early nineties, years before Trine's bone cancer manifested itself.

The two Silver Angels

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Re: The two Silver Angels

[becomethesea.livejournal.com]

Did you draw this?

Re: The two Silver Angels

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Yes. Did you miss my various sketch posts?

Re: The two Silver Angels

[becomethesea.livejournal.com]

I believe I have seen your drawings in the past, but I don't think I ever connected the idea of fpb the writer with fpb the artist. I like this drawing. And, my condolences for the loss of your Silver Angel. She was beautiful!