To Be Divine--Stephen Fry*

"I think it was Donald Mainstock the great amateur squash player who pointed out how lovely I was. Until that time, I think it was safe to say that I never really had been aware of my own timeless brand of loveliness. But his words smote me because of course you see, I am lovely in a fluffy, moist kind of way, and who would have it otherwise?

I walk, lets be splendid about this, in a lightly accented cloud of gorgeousness that isn't far short of being, quite simply, terrific.

The secret to smooth, almost shiny loveliness of the order of which we're discussing in this simple, frank, creamy, soft way doesn't reside in oils, unguents, balms, ointments, creams, astringents, milks, moisturizers, liniments, lubricants, embrocations, or balsams, to be rather divine for just one noble moment.

It resides, and I mean this in a pink, slightly special way, in one's attitude of mind.

To be gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely all you have to do is believe that one is gorgeous and high and true and fine and fluffy and moist and sticky and lovely.

And I believe it myself, tremulously at first, then with mounting heat and passion because, stopping off for a second to be super again, I'm so often told it.

That's the secret really."

*add gold and pink glitter and a lavender sachet