But what exactly qualifies as talent?

"'Talent is everything. If you've got talent, nothing else matters. You can screw up your personal life something terrible. So what. If you've got talent, it's there in reserve. Anybody who has talent they know they have it and that's it. It's what makes you what you are. It tells you you're you. Talent is everything; sanity is nothing. I'm convinced of it. I think I had something once. I showed promise, didn't I? But I was too sane. I couldn't make the leap out of my own soul into the soul of the universe. That's the leap they all made. From Blake to Rimbaud. I don't write anything but checks. I read science fiction. I go on business trips to South Bend and Rochester. The one in Minnesota. Not Rochester, New York. Rochester, Minnesota. I couldn't make the leap.'"
- Don Delillo "Americana"

and she's in pain

FASHION & STYLE December 3, 2009
Skin Deep: Your Own Fat, Relocated
By CATHERINE SAINT LOUIS
Surgeons can transplant unwanted fat from a patient’s thighs or buttocks and use it to create bigger breasts; after being condemned in the early ’90s, this procedure is generating newfound excitement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/fashion/03skin.html?em

I'd like the fat sucked out and injected into my ankles. Next season it will be all the rage.