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In any event, glory be to God for the busty (37") young Lynda Carter's gloriously beautiful body!

And glory be to the busty (37") young Lynda Carter for her body-positivity in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume!

Now, I have discussed my experience of feeling mildly euphoric for about ten weeks elsewhere. But I now want to review it once again here with respect to the transcendent function. In late August 2024 into September 2024, I watched the DVD version of the 1970s Wonder Woman television series starring the busty (37") young Lynda Carter (born in 1951) as Wonder Woman on the big-screen television in the living room of my home in Duluth, Minnesota. I had earlier watched the 1970s Wonder Woman television series in syndication at weekly intervals on the big-screen television in the living room of my home. I had been favorably impressed with the weekly episodes that I bought the DVD version of the 1970 television series.

As I watched the busty (37") young Lynda Carter perform in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume, I became infatuated with the gloriously beautiful body of the busty (37") young Lynda Carter in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume - but I was not infatuated with Lynda Carter in her role as the fashionably dressed Diana Prince. Moreover, I had not previously become infatuated with the busty (37") young Lynda Carter in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume as I had watched her perform at weekly interval in the television broadcast of the 1970s Wonder Woman television series. Nor had I previously become so deeply infatuated with the beautiful body of any other actress in any other weekly television show that I enjoyed watching over the years - nor had I previously become so deeply infatuated with the beautiful body of any other actress in any DVD version of a television show that I enjoyed watching.

In her wonderfully revealing wonder Woman costume, which looks like a colorful one-piece woman's bathing suit, the busty (37") young Lynda Carter, a beauty queen who had appeared in a bathing suit competition in beauty pageants, manifested exemplary body-positivity. I her wonderfully revealing Wonder woman costume, we were given a wonderful view of her cleavage and of her gorgeous long legs for our viewing pleasure - just as observers at beauty pageants were given a wonderful view of the various contestants' beautiful bodies.

So, the questions now arise, Was the transcendent function in my psyche at work when I became infatuated with the busty (37") young Lynda Carter in her wonderfully revealing Wonder Woman costume in late August 2024 into September 2024? And was the transcendent function in my psyche involved in making me feel mildly euphoric for about ten weeks in the fall of 2024? Yes, feeling mildly euphoric for about ten weeks in the fall of 2024 was an amazing experience - and memorable.

In any event, I have written about the gloriously beautiful young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman in two OEN articles: (1) "Young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman" (dated September 3, 2024; viewed 1,806 as of August 5, 2025): Click Here

(2) "Thomas j. Farrell's Encore on Young Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman" (dated September 30, 2024; viewed 1,218 times as of August 5, 2025): Click Here

Now, because Robert Moore refers to the diamond body in the titles of both his 1992 essay and his 1993 essay, I also want to point out here that Victorian Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) uses the expression "immortal diamond" twice in the closing lines of his poem "That Nature Is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection":

"Enough! The Resurrection,

"a heart's-clarion! Away grief's gaping, joyless days, dejection,

"Across my foundering deck shone

A beacon, an eternal beam ["a Heraclitean Fire"]. Flesh fade, and mortal trash

"Fall to the residuary worm; world's wildfire, leave but ash:

"In a flash, at a trumpet crash,

"I am all at one what Christ is, since He was what I am, and

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Thomas James Farrell is professor emeritus of writing studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD). He started teaching at UMD in Fall 1987, and he retired from UMD at the end of May 2009. He was born in 1944. He holds three degrees from Saint Louis University (SLU): B.A. in English, 1966; M.A.(T) in English 1968; Ph.D.in higher education, 1974. On May 16, 1969, the editors of the SLU student newspaper named him Man of the Year, an honor customarily conferred on an administrator or a faculty member, not on a graduate student -- nor on a woman up to that time. He is the proud author of the book (more...)
 

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