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Fri Nov 21, 2025, 10:51 PM Friday

Vivien LEIGH as Cleopatra - no idea whether this is actual or created [View all]

Nor am I any particular cultist of anybody - even of NIETZCHE who said he didn't want followerers, so am I a follower non-follower of his? But before YouTube I had images of known historical or celebrity humanoids, and YouTube in the past few years has set about demolishing or otherwise built-up just about everybody. "Changing *paradigms* " of humanoids or events.

So obviously, Ms LEIGH was Scarlett and a dash of The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone and Ship of Fools. Never saw the fabled Streetcar whatever. But in YouTube-land, much is made of her very, *very* complicated physical and mental health and symptomatic love life.

But look at this face. I never accepted Teh Elizabeth or other glimpses from silent screen as "Cleopatra" - too artifically "perfect" but look at this creature's face:

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