Joan Didion was born in 1934.
Last year, her full page image
Why, you might ask, would a magazine
use an 80-year-old to model anything?
Because she wore the same sunglasses in 1961.
That is the year Vogue published
Didion's groundbreaking essay:
Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters
across two pages of a
notebook that innocence ends
when one is stripped of the delusion that
one likes oneself.
Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind
on the outs with itself should have nonetheless
made painstaking record
of its every tremor,
I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor
of
those particular ashes.
It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.
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