Sublime

Flynn, Errol. My Wicked, Wicked Ways. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1959.

Helene Wright was an impressive woman, at least in Medallion she was. Heavy hair in a bun, dark eyes arched in a perpetual query about other people’s manners. A woman who won all social battles with presence and a conviction of the legitimacy of her authority.

plain woman giving fuck-me eyes

reedy voices,

Hemingway offered to modify the noun with “lousy” or “lesbian,” but if anyone was ever a bitch, he said it was Gertrude Stein.

(I thought this one’s name was not Madison but Addison, and then I thought that surely I had to be making that up).

provincial