Original artwork, not a still
Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) autobiography
No power on earth, however, can abolish the merciless class distinction between those who are physically desirable and the lonely, pallid, spotted, silent, unfancied majority.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Attractiveness, Mortimer says, sorts people into a hard hierarchy that nothing can undo. Those left outside it are the lonely, pale, spotted and quiet majority. It's a rueful, bitterly funny view of who gets noticed and who doesn't.
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