There is something about southern belles that defies definition. They are are always fresh looking; they don’t sweat - they perspire.
This is ‘Sugar’, not her real name, an actress friend who embodied the new south. But here she is dressed as Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind. She was kind.
The other woman is ‘Honey’ a Cajun woman I knew from university from biology lab. I had her pose in a Cajun dress. She was sweet.
They were my friends. The discretion of a southern gentleman is legendary. The author Walker Percy would understand. He wrote about Louisiana and the subtlety in our speech.
If you want to say something nasty about someone you say, “ I don’t know them.”
Walker Percy quotes:
“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
“Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know,
it tells us something we know but don’t know that
we know.”
“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.”
“Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.”
“Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?”
