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Article: The woman who misplaced her nose: a surrealist fantasy about a woman whose most important feature suddenly disappears.(Fashion)
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- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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All night long, Martine had been unconsciously repeating the names of every flower she could remember. It was obsessive and compulsive, and it amounted to 3,762 varieties. This because of her meeting the next day with the perfume team at the most important fashion brand in the U.S. "We want to pick your French nose," they told her. Gross, she thought, but she didn't say it, because she wanted the job. Obviously.
Martine gets up and searches for her glasses--which is always complicated for the reason that she can't see without them.
She goes to the mirror to see if, despite this night of half-sleeping spent with all the flowers on earth, she looks alive. ...