Fantasy and Reality


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I’m sure there is a D.H Lawrence poem which includes the line “for she is all women” and something about continuing “to feed her body on yourself”. I tried Googling “she is all women” and got some wonderful esoteric references, which whiled away a pleasant afternoon. But nothing about Lawrence. Perhaps I’m mistaken. Anyway, that’s how I feel about Emma: she is all women. And vice versa. By now, she totally accepts my philosophical assertion that, whenever I ogle a beautiful woman, that woman is for me momentarily Emma herself. I’ve even managed to convince myself of its truth. I must admit it’s a convenient self-deception which gives me licence to ogle at will. But it is also a way of realising (making real) a favourite pass-time of mine - superimposing Emma’s features onto idealised images of beautiful women, especially goddesses and characters from mythology. The original of this montage is a beautiful image by Kimberley Kane, which I borrowed from Selina Kitt’s Blog.

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