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Hair In Ovid's Poem Titled 'No Tales'
“What I did (no excuses!) Was mess up/her new coiffure. Like that, in disarray,/ It looked splendidly windswept” In the Ovid the poem described how much he liked Corina’s hair the way it was naturally: had a beautiful colour, very delicate and long.. The sentence above is an explicit discussion of the process that has resulted on so much harm on Corina’s hair. The author emphasis on the use of hot curling irons, which are one of the items responsible for the loss of hair. The author provided warning on the use of such items, noting that he liked her hair naturally. His interest in her turns out to be sexual “it looked splendidly windswept.”

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