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Bouvard on Beauty, Possession, and Mimetic Desire

X / Twitter · Apr 20, 2026 · 1 min read

Loomer is asking questions. Is she *just* asking questions? I'm not sure.

@slooperbia50068 Which questions were those?

@slooperbia50068 This is not something anyone simply decides. "Possession" of beauty depends upon possessing other things,

@slooperbia50068 Beauty at the center? That's what he indicates? I'll check later at home, so I can tell if and how I disagree.

@slooperbia50068 Unless I'm missing something, then, that seems consistent with what I'm saying.

@slooperbia50068 I think this is what Gans was trying to do with Carole Landis. If we could all acknowledge her unsurpassable beauty... And then he got attacked by her fans for speaking about her breasts. I think we will have to look to data, in the broadest sense.

@slooperbia50068 Since I don't know what you're getting at, not is the best guess.

@slooperbia50068 I wondered if that was it. Yes, broads, dames and a couple of other terms I'm forgetting. I didn't have that pun in mind and I might have to resist its application.

@truepeers @slooperbia50068 Data will be the gate to everything else.

@slooperbia50068 @truepeers Invent one.

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