What Ifindmost upsetting about this new all-consumingbeautycultureis that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.
Over the next few days, in between checking to see if Fumiko had left her room, I allowed the twenty pages to become my obsession, the cynosure of my day-to-day life, as all-consuming as a new love affair.