so exhausted

my head kills and i feel awful. in more ways than one. i started reading sabotage cafe by joshua furst and it's actually quite good, i like the way it's written. thank you city library

the woman on the left is theda bara. she starred as cleopatra in the eponymous film in 1917. sadly, no prints are left today, but her prints live on. she made more than forty films in 12 years, pretty impressive, yet only 40 seconds of cleopatra are still around, there's a clip of another film in some museum and that's it. despite not being able to watch her films, i am in awe of her. isn't she intensely beautiful? she just is exaggeration. she's twice as much there as anyone else. the weird thing about women that are barely clothed is that they seem to have more skin than anyone else. she's such an inspirational figure. she was one of the original vamps, some of the most charismatic and non-body centric stars of cinematic history. i mean look at her: i worship her.

so here's to theda bara, a siren and a heroine.