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A portion of "Irony Is Not Enough: Essay On My Life as Catherine Deneuve (2nd draft)"
from MEN IN THE OFF HOURS

saison qui chante saison rapide

je commence
Beginnings are hard. Sappho put it simply. Speaking of a young girl Sappho said, You burn me. Deneuve usually begins with herself and a girl together in a hotel room. This is mental. ( Read more... )

grandmother's friend: yes, i have a libran grandaughter also.
grandmother: really. They're sweet aren't they?
grandmother's friend: yes, but, does your libra ever give you a hard time? is she prissy?
grandmother: no...not at all...i think because she's on a cusp.

I heart my grandmother.

I work at a bakery now. Every morning at 7:50 I arrange bread baskets and trays of cookies, pastries, and tarts. I make coffee, italian sodas, and flirt with customers. I have no time for a social life as I am dead tired when I get home; this explains my absence from everywhere ( Read more... )

"Paris today. What do girls dream of...but which girls? The checkers at SIMCA are so exhausted from working they have no time to make love. The manicurists on the Champs Elysees, whoring at 18 in the big hotels on the right bank. The schoolgirl who knows only of Bergson and Sartre, and no one else, a prisoner in her parents bourgeois apartment. ( Read more... )

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"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." -Pride and Prejudice; Jane Austen