Out-takes XII

29th October 2006 with 8 Comments

The midwife told me that gender conditioning begins the moment the baby is born. The parents, the doctor, the first visitors, grandparents, the nurses on the ward, they all conspire together. The first question is always: “Is it a boy or a girl?” And once they know the answer they react [...]

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"There are many lines that could be spared from the book you are reading," she said, her voice primly firm and dogmatic. "I must 'a' missed 'em," he announced. "What I read was the real goods. It was all lighted up an' shining, an' it shun right into me an' lighted me up inside, like the sun or a searchlight. That's the way it landed on me, but I guess I ain't up much on poetry, miss." Jack London, Martin Eden (Martin and Ruth, discussing the poet Martin called "Swineburne")

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