“How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare?... that became for me more and more, the real measure of value.”
--Friedrich Nietzsche
…Laura, ashamed of her 280 pounds, keeps her size a secret. She avoids being seen by working from home. She lives in front of her computer, compulsively eating and building a virtual double life: she has a professional life that brings her income and a fantasy work where she pretends to be someone else. She has online relationships with men, sometimes using different personas to carry on several pseudo-relationships at once. Laura sounds friendly and vibrant on the phone and in her e-mails, but she avoids face to face meetings. She is worried that she will lose her virtual erotic relationships and long-distance love affairs as Skype video chatting grows in popularity.