Leon Trotsky wrote somewhere in his " Diary in Exile " :
" Old age is hideous ! " . Those words of the eternal revolutionary
hit me hard again when I saw the 76 year old " Cosmopolitan " editor,
Helen Gurley Brown , being interviewed on TV. This woman who vows to
fight old age until THE END, is the worst advertisement for FACE LIFTS
on this absurd planet. She should marry Eddie Fisher - who has
also challenged ETERNITY - in vain - with a horrid face lift.
What a mockery of youth - the remade face of Helen Gurley
Brown . Instead of looking 30 years younger, she looks about a
1000 years older. Gazing at that horror, I was reminded of the
pathetic countenance of an unwrapped Egyptian mummy. If the
mummy could talk , it would express its complete shock that
life beyond the grave is only a mockery of life , just as
" youth " in old age is only a mockery of youth .
If I were God, I would punish Helen Gurley Brown and
Eddie Fisher for their vanity : They would have to spend an
eternity staring into each other' s facelift face !
Now I must go out and buy another large bottle of
vitamin pills with ester- C .
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