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I remember walking along an animated street on a gray spring afternoon somewhere near the Madeleine. A short slim girl passed me at a rapid, high-heeled, tripping step, we glanced back at the same moment, she stopped and I accosted her. She came hardly up to my chest hair and had the kind of dimpled round little face French girls so often have, and
... See moreVladimir Nabokov • Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
punk
Sarah Pollock • 1 card
The term “girl” came into popular usage in England in the 1880s to describe working-class unmarried women who occupied an emerging social space between childhood and adulthood. Not quite a child, she was childlike in that she had yet to become a wife or mother, the type of modern urbanite who engaged in “frivolous” pursuits like consumption,
... See moreAshley Mears • Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit
Once it was a young girl who entered the kitchen suddenly in a gust of wind, pale, thin, and strange, like a stray thought.
Lydia Davis • The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Babyland
Mom describes seeing them in Sacramento, they used a power saw on an oil drum and sparks flew. Wikipedia says they were electro junk punk, my mom’s calls them industrial. She says they lit part of a venue on fire and were banned.