Sublime

These were the innocent early years of childhood when Lou discovered the pleasure of drinking egg cream – milk shake made with soda – in the milk bars on Kings Highway, which he sang about nostalgically in his 1996 song ‘Egg Cream’.

I said I remembered him writing about Le Jockey and the fight with the British sergeant in one of his stories, but the girl wasn’t Josephine Baker. “No,” he said, “I thought her feeling about the soul was her private business, so I invented a woman to take her place in the story and I left out everything about the soul.

Pearls would become Belle’s signature accessory. She wore them as a long rope, circled around her neck once or twice, with a third loop that hung far down in front, finished with a glittering ruby or two.

mother and child might be reduced to a shadow without irreverence.

The tradition of men as guardians and protectors had quite died out. These stalwart virgins had no men to fear and therefore no need of protection. As to wild beasts—there were none in their sheltered land.