I'm a bit of a fan of L'occitane products -- and while the prices are a bit inflated, they always throw in a lagniappe or two to help stave off the buyer's remorse. One recent gift was a sample of their new "youth concentrate" moisturizer. With the hopes of any 30 year old to regain the irresistible flesh of a twentysomething, I applied the cream and after a few days I really did appear 13 years younger! Looking in the mirror I saw my seventeen-year-old self again, complete with a visage dotted with pimples. I suppose there's a moral in there somewhere about getting what you wish for...
At least the product did what it said it would. I remember being very confused as a child trying to understand shampoo that was "for dry hair" / "for normal hair" / "for oily hair". Thinking the adjective applied to the result, I questioned why anyone would choose the shampoo that made their hair dry or oily. Unless it was some punkrock rejection of the "normal". Or if you had dry hair, you'd need to treat it with the oily shampoo to compensate.
I also had trouble with the concepts of 'probably' & 'perhaps' & 'possibly' & 'maybe' not understanding the element of deferral and indecision-- concepts I've now more-than-mastered. In the engendered binary word-pairs, these words are classified as both feminine and postmodernist. I wonder if anyone's written a thesis called "the feminine deferral" incorporating elements of feminist criticism and deconstruction? Of course the delicious bit of the essay would suggest the feminine deferral is somehow related to the many billboards around Melbourne these days that simply ask "Want longer lasting sex?"
See also: Bjork's "Possibly Maybe" & The Kills' "Wait"
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