Interesting Links
What can I say about a paper that includes the line, "I focus on model/actress Susan Dey and her first television character Laurie Partridge because the Dey/Partridge persona can be understood as a cathexis of the emerging tensions between traditionalist and feminist standards for (white heterosexual) girlhood," except "Go, Kate!" You clearly know all about living life Laurie-Partridge-style.
Susan Dey, Supermodel, or Laurie Partridge, Budding Feminist?: Teen Girl Culture in the Early 1970s by Kate Kruckemeyer.
In Seducing Mr. Darcy, our heroine Flip goes to a massage studio that advertises that customers can imagine themselves in their favorite book. Here's an article from the New York Times that talks a phenomenon called "lucid dreaming." You'll have to join to read the article, but it's free, so have a look:
"Living Your Dreams, in a Manner of Speaking" by Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, September 16, 2007.
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