Sublime

She was a harbinger of the sub rosa, the new world awaiting me in just a few weeks.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin—five

indignities

She pleases him, this shy slip of a girl who doesn’t dare to look up, who’s so unlike those flappers over there, whom he detests in a grouchy sort of way because a gramophone always rattles to life when they show up and because they sashay through the room as no woman in Holland ever would have in his day.

portentousness

Eve Babitz, and Joan’s longtime friend, Earl McGrath, who was married to an Italian countess and introduced the Dunnes to tout L.A.

precocious.