tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post201191531285198273..comments2023-10-03T11:41:21.191+01:00Comments on The Truth About Lies: Ugly to Start WithJim Murdochhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-10720639780298078062012-03-03T10:33:11.344+00:002012-03-03T10:33:11.344+00:00Beauty fascinates me, Dave. Most people have a typ...Beauty fascinates me, <b>Dave</b>. Most people have a type that they’re drawn to but when I look at the women I’ve been attracted to over the years—both in real life and on the silver screen—I struggle to see what they have in common apart from two eyes, a nose and a mouth. I tend not to be attracted to conventional beauties. I have a post coming up where I talk about Angelina Jolie and there is no doubt that she is an attractive woman but I can’t in all honesty say that she does that much for me. Personality is a big thing with me. Not that I’m drawn to women with big personalities either but there needs to be something more than a pretty face.<br /><br />There’s a lot to think about in this book. As I start to work my way through books I’m usually writing the review in my head as I go. It’s a good title but I never really imagined it was a theme and I wonder even if John himself realised this when he picked it as a title but it certainly focused my attention. I have to wonder if he had chosen some other title would I have been as quick to pick up on the whole ugliness vs. beauty dichotomy?<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6327348657265652781.post-49155194353362127942012-03-02T14:14:01.284+00:002012-03-02T14:14:01.284+00:00This sounds a fascinating book. You raise a lot of...This sounds a fascinating book. You raise a lot of potentially interesting discussion points, but a phrase which persists in thrusting itself upon me is:<br /><br /><i>What is ugliness if not a deviation from the norm?</i><br />If so, beauty must also be, presumably. I assume that what is meant here is deviation as it is understood in common parlance, not the mathematical or statistical concept. A detour from the accepted mode, in other words. What follows would seem to back up this interpretation:<br /> <i>There is nothing a teenage boy wants more than to be normal, to conform, to give no one cause to point the finger or, perhaps worse, wag the finger. And yet, at the same time, what he really wants more than anything is to find himself even if that self is a deviant </i><br /><br />This seems to me to get to the crux of the case. I am with you every syllable of the way - but having once, even if erroneously, thought about beauty and ugliness as points on a statistical chart, the idea is so intriguing that I have a fancy I shall b thinking more about this.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.com