Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.

If Self’s languages define her identity, and have made her ‘very Canadian,’ her French does not correspond to Canadian French as she discovers in Montreal, her Québécois heritage absent from her pronunciation:[…]it is precisely Self’s ‘French French’ that undermines her in public in Quebec, as the dignity of her claims to being Québécoise is attacked.

In England the vices in fashion are whoring & drinking, in Turkey, Sodomy & smoking, we prefer a girl and a bottle, they a pipe and pathic.

The face lift is a classic example of cosmetic surgery.