No mask is wholly a mask. Writers and psychologists have explored the face-as-mask. Not so well appreciated: the mask-as-face. Some people, no doubt, do wear their masks as a sheathe for the lithe but insupportable emotions beneath. But surely most people wear a mask to efface what is beneath and become only what the mask represents them to be.
More interesting than the masks as concealment or disguise is the mask as projection , as aspiration. Through the mask of my behavior, I do not protect my raw genuine self — I overcome it.引自第178页
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