Pretty as a picture -

"Flower Girl"
digital collage by Mick Mather

It was the drape of a simple, cotton dress over the form of her body that mesmerized me this evening. I don't suppose there's anything quite as bewitching as pure animal magnetism which, I believe, is a chemical reaction of the brain triggered by such things as...pheromones? Simple sight, sound, smell? Oh the demystified demise of a good performance rife with the sort of suggestive trickery of Mssr. Mesmer in his day.