Exhilarating masquerade
A wig, an exotic accent, a fake passport; not much was needed for the Charlatan’s exhilarating masquerade. Oh, the freedom she felt once transformed! Shameless and above the law, she took what she wanted: your money, your job, your husband. But tonight, for the first time, she had almost taken someone’s life. Looking in the mirror afterwards, she was startled to see the mask staring back at her. Had she gone too far this time? Lost herself completely? With trembling fingers, she tried to take it off…
“Very few of us are what we seem,” Agatha Christie once wrote. And indeed, Agatha’s books are peopled by characters pretending to be someone else: colorful charlatans and fabulous frauds. From Frances Cary in ‘Third Girl’ who uses a wig to switch back and forth between her 2 roles to archaeologist Eric Leidner wo fakes his own death in ‘Murder in Mesopotamia’, then returns 15 years later. But wait, is that really Eric? You get the picture. It isn’t just criminals who play with identities, however. To obtain information, even Agatha’s saintlike detective Poirot occasionally pretends to have (and poses as) an identical twin brother named Achille. Let’s not be hypocrites, Agatha seems to say, all of us wear masks, on a daily basis. After all, didn’t she herself disappear for 11 days in 1926, refusing to talk about it for the rest of her life, claiming she had no recollection of the entire incident? (Yeah, right). As Agatha put it so beautifully in ‘Murder in Mesopotamia’: “A woman who doesn’t lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.”
“The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.” (from ‘Sad Cypress’)
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Building bridges
From the Erasmus Bridge and the Mercedes-Benz Museum to Qatar’s metro network; Ben van Berkel’s iconic landmarks bring people together in rapturous beauty, again and again. I talked with the Dutch architect and educator about sensuality, ‘healthy’ buildings and the remarkable parallels between our designs.
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More than a feeling
Don’t ignore your emotions; they are much more powerful than you can imagine. By linking the magical world of emotions with hard science, Dutch scientist Pierre Capel, professor emeritus in experimental immunology, shows us the consequences of our feelings and the power of our minds. The message: we can do much more than we think. “Meditate. It’s the single best thing you can do for your health.”
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Marlies Says
Keto curious?
The fact that I feel bikini-confident all year round is, of course, a nice bonus. But for me, the biggest payoff of following the keto diet is the way it optimizes my health and gives me tons of energy.
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Super (skin) food
‘If you can’t eat it, why put it on your skin?’. I pretty much live by this beauty adage. After all, with your skin being one of your body’s largest organs, anything – and I mean anything! – you put onto your skin will end up in your bloodstream.
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Le blog Maison Marlies
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