Pimples seem to be a modern phenomenon. During one of my tutorials today, while being bored by the other group's haphazardly put together presentation, I started picking at my white spots. And as they continued droning about the inconsequential consequence of some less developed country's balance of payments deficit, I ruminated about the surpluses on my face, them pimples.
Read any books of yesteryears and there is no mention about it. Where are those wimpled medievel maiden rants in ye olde English about their pimples? Where are those lithe Little Women, giggling while squeezing their pusses out?
Neither have I seen any period drama with any lines about pimples. And you would think they would be filled with it, considering their affinity for trivial tattle and small talk. Perhaps it is not the thing to chatter about in high society. Is there no great authority whom they could hear a pimple story from?
Zits truly is a child of modern times. Teen flicks would have at least a segment devoted to it. Read a teen diary and there must be a story arc about the writer's battles with the clinging barnacles. It's never been more exposed, well, maybe less exposed than when it popped up right before Prom Night.
It all sounds very teeny and adolescent like, which makes me wonder why I'm still having them.
Posted by Mettars at April 20, 2003 08:35 PM