Makeup and Masks

A little birdie reminded me of my blog... That I actually had one. >< Just kidding. Training is over for the week. Combine training was ahem-okay-cough my headache came back halfway and somehow, I don't feel the need to stretch [I did stretch a bit] but I think I'll regret it tomorrow.


Anyway, I was watching TV when I saw this commercial for 'Cabaret', this new play - If you haven't seen the commercial, I suggest you watch arts central more, arts central is good!! - and I was thinking that they all looked morbidly good. >< I don't know how to explain it, but they could put off some people and turn on others, with the heavy makeup and overthetop costumes. Maybe that's the whole thing about cabarets, but I wouldn't know, they quite fascinated me. [as in the people dancing about in the commercial, not cabarets, I'm still wondering what kind of thing cabarets are to have the wrath of the governments ban fall upon them.]


So while the whole commercial was being aired with it's bright garish colours and cutesy [well, not-so-cutesy] tune, my mom went 'Isn't that Fei Xiang?'
I was, 'Who's Fei Xiang?'
And she said some guy from taiwan or somewhere along those lines, anyway she said something about him, I can't really remember anymore.
Then I thought, there are so many times when people put personalities onto others and judge them, just like putting a mask onto someone else's face then interacting with that person, but always looking at only the mask. Or makeup, heavy makeup, in this case.
Just like what the buggers and the piggies said, lets read an excerpt from Xenocide [the third book in the Ender Saga by Orson Scott Card]


[We know our lovers with perfect understanding. [i]Humans[/i] invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed.]
[That is the tragedy of language, my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong.]
[That is the source of their misery]


This conversation was between two different alien species commenting on the strange way humans pair up. I recommend the Ender Saga to those who have not read it yet, it's really good.


Back to the point, I was saying..? Ah yes, I was saying how we put a mask on others faces right? So there have been so many times I've done that kind of thing, imagining somebody, to be someone who is different, and when I realise that they're different from what I thought them to be, I get a little shock, not enough to show on my face, but enough to make me wake up. Wake up from the little daydreams in my life. *sigh* I'm a hopeless dreamer.


'Don't judge a book by it's cover', well, we certainly make up our own covers, and then judge the book without reading it.