Dorothy Parker, as usual, for the win.

[truepenny]

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Roumania.

--Dorothy Parker, "Comment"

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Yes, it's true, one of the things I use LiveJournal for is a sort of hypertexted, searchable commonplace book. I am tired of getting this little ditty half-stuck in my head, so that I can neither remember it nor stop trying to.

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In other news, I want to figure out how to do my hair like Djuna Barnes. Which may be the shallowest reaction to a literary figure I have ever had.

Comments

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

You know, I have never been able to figure out how hairpins work.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Amusingly enough I'm wearing my hair more or less that way this very minute (I confess, though, it looks better on Djuna barnes.) No hairpins needed - I have v. fine hair, but it does have some curl. Grab it as you would for a ponytail and keep twisting until it sort of turns under itself. Tuck in ends.Right now it's held purely with something shaped more or less like this (http://lameiwigs.en.alibaba.com/product/50101419/200326064/Hair_Ornaments/hair_claw.html). (I used a couple tiny clips to hold stray bits that clip didn't catch - bobby pins work too.) I can also hold it with a hair comb (http://www.adorable-hair-accessory.com/crystalcomb9.html) (I think the kind with zigzaggy teeth hold better) or hair fork (http://www.argusdesigns.com/products/fork/f_exwood.html). I have a fork with three 'tines' nad it holds extremely well. The key to holding hair with combs or forks is to push them in first in the *opposite* direction of how you want them to go, then reverse course and push all the way in.

Incidentally I think this style would look way better on you than it does on me.