Sorry for the misunderstanding, Professor Snape. Your kind of pectorals are the perfect kind for my personal liking, but I was referring to the unnatural look and feel of these washboard-sixpack-anomalies the average hero on the average bodice-ripper cover is sporting. I've never experience what it feels like, but it seems to me similar to the artificial experience of touching silicon boobs... and as artificial as the fact that said heros seem to spend at least half of the time in the book with a naked upper body. No matter if it's freezing outside or they are attending a family dinner at home... just have the heroine spill a little red wine over the hero, and he urgently has to shed every upper body garment and strut around showing off this weird muscular attribute.
Hm, come to think of it, I have to confess that I cannot in true honesty claim to say "always" for this kind of phenomenon. I have read far too few books of the kind to make more than a moderately-informed guess. But having worked in a bookshop now and then, I can vouch for a sufficient amount of covers seen! ;o)
PS: Dear Professor, if you ever find yourself wanting to look at hair-to-the-bum (or nearly there), you're always welcome to take the elastics out of mine... even without pins, it falls down nicely.
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Date: 2012-04-15 03:56 pm (UTC)Hm, come to think of it, I have to confess that I cannot in true honesty claim to say "always" for this kind of phenomenon. I have read far too few books of the kind to make more than a moderately-informed guess. But having worked in a bookshop now and then, I can vouch for a sufficient amount of covers seen! ;o)
PS: Dear Professor, if you ever find yourself wanting to look at hair-to-the-bum (or nearly there), you're always welcome to take the elastics out of mine... even without pins, it falls down nicely.