"It is the most wonderful thing to be seduced, taken over, taken along for a ride," Leibovitz writes of the connection between photographer and subject.
I was seduced all over again by Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose, re-reading the whole sequence of novels before reaching for At Last (Picador), an elegant, witty, fearless story of loss and self-acceptance.
Its power, I soon realised, is more creeping than that, and at the end of that second read I was as impressed as before, seduced all over again by the intensity of the narrative, by its dogged commitment to its flawed, doomed heroine.
And in Faith (Eliza Dushku), a second slayer added in the third season and seduced over to the mayor's camp, the show considers the case of the adolescent so deeply damaged that she confuses love with weakness.
Gretchen, played by Ms. Feiffer with perky energy, breezily dismisses her qualms, and continues preparing to set the trap she's laid, although since only Laura can conceive, she's the one who will be doing the seducing over a casual dinner.
Her newly released book, inspired by the true story of an American girl seduced over the Internet into ISIS is Bride of ISIS.
If all it takes to be seduced over to the gay "dark side" is to earn a merit badge together, certainly we are all susceptible to the gay mojo.
Within a few minutes, she and others are standing up and gliding towards the shoreline on a benevolent swell, but with success comes the inevitable wipeouts, as the learners, perhaps seduced by over-confidence and a lack of know-how, are given a salty lesson in the Manly surf.
There's very real danger that you could be seduced into over-spending!
