Following up, in quite another vein, on some recent themes, I am going to say a few choice words about some relationships.
Let's say that most fashion models, on the fashion runways, in global market fashion capitalism, are 'straight 'men'', 'Bertrands'.
You cannot understand this unless you understand at least a very little, as I do, of the history of comedy, within history.
Bertrand was the straight man, 'the thin man', for Robert Macaire, made famous in graphics, after they were notable characters in literature, politics, and drama, by Daumier. Look also at Daumier's early period.
If you look at comedy teams like Laurel & Hardy, and Kramden & Norton, there are parallels. There are others.
Terms search Thurston, Maverick, Macaire, Beautiful, ugly, marilyn, philosophers, Venus, Willendorf.
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