she's little more than imported wallpaper; the perfect obscure object of desire (what i wish i saw when i look out the back window of my house in manhattan).
this is not unusual for sufferers of dorian gray syndrome, a little-known psychological disorder first identified in 2000 by a cabal of staff shrinks at germany's justus-liebig-university, giessen.
an ethnographic view of fat shows it to be a more fluid construct. the stigmatizing term "obese," from the latin obesus, originally meant "having eaten well" until it was reclassified by 19th-century doctors and health workers, just as "fat" was once a flattering term used by the greeks.
flesh suggests messiness. art, control.
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