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"How odd that bones, reminders of old mortality, should be considered essential to beauty in this perverse age. What of Titian and Rubens? And Michelangelo--no, perhaps not Michelangelo, whose women were really men, cursorily emasculated, with breasts like poached eggs placed randomly on their chests. Then what of those African potentates who force-fed their favourite wives on milk and honey until the beloved women could scarcely move and had to be rolled around."

--Alice Thomas Ellis, The 27th Kingdom