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Warren C. E. Austin wrote:
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
Warren, je suis d'accord avec toi qu'un cul bien galbé est généralement très attirant. 
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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... 'fictionally' held between the Ambassadors of France and The United States of America (if I recall correctly) either shortly before, or just after, America had entered Viet Nam. The French Ambassador was making reference to the Viet's inability to find suitable footing in their pursuit of 'true' independence given its' rather fleeting, and often arbitrary, occurrence in real life.
In translation, this might read:
... "as well sought after as a well-rounded behind"
The names of both the female author and book are lost to me in the mists of my mind. I do seem to recall that she was a tall, statuesque and buxom, blonde of some literary merit, with one or more of her novels then having made the "New York Times Best Seller List for Fiction". Her Jacket-photo taken standing mid-shot saw her adorned as an absolutely stunning confection. Her low-cut evening gown and coiffure done in the Southern 'Ante-bellum' style of being pulled up and away in towering ringlets from her shoulders and back provided for the most luscious arch of alabaster neck and cleavage I likely had, in my then post-pubescent years, ever seen and probably was the fuel that had driven any interest I may have had in the novel in the first place.
I must revisit this novel, if I can ever remember its' name; it represents, and represented when written, an alternative view of a history then in the making in direct apposition to that taken by the more famous, and infinitely more popular 'The Ugly American'.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
[Updated on: Mon, 08 March 2010 13:44]
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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I wasn't asking for a translation, I was offering an agreement - in rather more juicy language. Thanks for the reference.
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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... but I should clarify that I provided the translation for others likely who have often seen the quotation but neither understood its' reference nor context; although, I do freely admit to my having suborned its' true and intended frame-of-reference to suit my own purposes.
You are the first to have ever commented upon my choice in tag-line, and I genuinely, and sincerely, thank you for that.
Whilst I have not 'aged' at all well, in the classical sense of one's aging, I have 'lived' well ... and gracefully; but, I haven't been the 'man' you see pictured in my avatar for a very great long while; nor too, would I ever again want to be.
The tag-line quotation, chosen after long and careful consideration and applied within the context of why it was chosen at all, recalls a time and place in my life, and the lives of those that I then rubbed shoulders with, where beauty without substance transcended all else; it then being the currency which financed all manner of debased, debauched, licentious and lascivious behaviours. Artifice trumped all, with it ultimately giving birth and rise to hedonism on a scale never before realized, and hopefully the likes of which will never again unfold. 'Plausible Deniability' was neither a catch-phrase nor 8-second sound-bite, but a self-directed way of life whereupon accountability for one's actions was never conceived or desired.
I have at time or two lifted a corner of the veil upon that world in posts I've authored here, and occasionally elsewhere. Whilst on one hand my early life of wealth and privilege might have then been envied by some, in truth, my own deportment in that arena was never something I today would want to take any pride in.
My avatar and the choice of tag-line is in some small manner my 'flipping the bird' at myself, and what I then represented; not who I was later to become, nor who I am today.
Warren C. E. Austin
The Gay Deceiver
Toronto, Canada
[Updated on: Mon, 08 March 2010 14:38]
"... comme recherché qu'un délice callipygian"
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