Thursday, August 27, 2009

DEJAH VIEW


Another attraction for the grubby schoolboy was that Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium, didn’t wear any clothes. ECB’s first describes her (again) thusly…

“And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life....Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect. She was as destitute of clothes as the green Martians who accompanied her; indeed, save for her highly wrought ornaments she was entirely naked, nor could any apparel have enhanced the beauty of her perfect and symmetrical figure.”

6 comments:

William Kretschmer said...

I think I need to read the series...

Anonymous said...

strange needs you've got if reading is one of them

Unknown said...

i think we're beginning to get the Traci Lords angle here...

roldo said...

Not unlike Helana Bonham-Cater...

Diamond Jim said...

Mmmmm...Helena Bonham Carter...

Munz said...

They don't make Princesses like they used ta!