open and close.

　
Vic: A replacement-is that what you are saying?

Dean Yes. Something that you could use to shield yourself when you need it,

but isn' t there all the time when you want to open up. See what it says.

Vic: [pause] It says, "Yes."

Dean: Ask it what you need to do f or it to begin opening up.

Vic: [pause] To get massaged. To be, perhaps, more vulnerable. To allow myself

to be touched.

Dean: What images or feelings come to mind of your body in that way?

Vic: I'd feel freer.

Dean: How would you look? Ask "Fat", the one that protects you and shields you,

if it would give you a different image of your body. How your body

would look if you were more open and less shielded all the time.

　
Vic: Okay.

Dean: What does it say?

Vic: [pause] If I'm willing, it's willing.

Dean: Good . W hat image do you see? You can always go back to the fat image if

you need it.

Vic: I see a thinner body.

Dean: What does it look like?

Vic: It looks thinner. But it looks disfigured The fat is very disfigured.

Dean: How so?

Vic: It's full of stretch marks. Saggy skin.

Dean: Okay. What does that body have to say?

Vic: [pause] To try and attain it anyway. To try to achieve it. That it's okay

to have a thinner body that' s not perfect.

Dean: Do any other images or feelings come to your awareness?

Vic: I feel uncomfortable and sad...

II. Read

Read the following passages. Underline the important viewpoints while reading.

1. We Should All Grow Fat and Be Happy

Here's a familiar version of the boy-meets-girl situation. A young man has at last plucked up courage to invite a dazzling young lady out to dinner. She has accepted his invitation and he is overjoyed. He is determined to take her to the best restaurant in town, even if it means that he will have to live on memories and hopes during the month to come. When they get to the restaurant, he discovers that this etherial creature is on a diet. She mustn't eat this and she mustn't drink that. Oh, but of course, she doesn' t want to spoil his enjoyment. Lct him by all means eat as much fattening food as he wants: it's the surest way to an early grave. They spend a truly memorable even:ng together and never see each other again.

What a miserable lot dieters arel You can always recognize them from the sour expression on their faces. They spend most of their tixne turning their noses up at food. 'They are forever consulting calorie charts; gazing at themselves in mirrors; and leaping on to weighing-machines in the bathroom. They spend a lifetime fighting a losing battle against spreading hips, protruding tummies and double chins Some wage all-out war on fat . Mere dieting is not enough.

They exhaust themselves doing exercises, sweating in sauna baths, being pummelled and massaged by weird machines. The really wealthy diet-mongers pay vast sums for "health cures? For two weeks they can enter a "nature clinic" and be starved to death for a hundred guineas a week. Don't think it's only the middle-aged who go in for these fads either. Many of these bright young things you see are suffering from chronic malnutrition: they are living on. nothing but air, water and the goodwill of God.

Dieters undertake to starve themselves of their own free will so why

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