As a research strategy, corporeography names a specific dual interest in the bodily and emotional experiences of others and in the knowledge-making capacities of the researching body itself.

What can I say, or think of this most terrible of fatalities?

We will plant some other in the throne.

The Madonna letters, which are interspersed with more personal missives in this curious epistolary memoir, accumulate into a rap about the downsides of celebrity - the problems of ageing, of invaded privacy, of becoming vain and impetuously adopting children from other continents.