"sell" sexual signifiers
"'Sell' Sexual Signifiers," July 18, 2022 (#199)
title from "The Epiphany of Female Flesh: A Phenomenological Hermeneutic of Popular Fashion" by Richard J. Alapack (2009)
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (2018)
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro (1990)
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (2011)
"Sell" Sexual Signifiers
Lately I’ve become vulnerable to earworms, and sure enough the song,
with many floundering efforts at its composition,
defeated him immediately, yet she had chosen to aim for a tie
that masochism was the root cause of all other human neuroses,
too young to be taken seriously, and had to dance with other
amazement. On a single day I had attracted the attention of a
Prince, Adele, and Frank Sinatra. And Mozart, lots of Mozart
immediately, magnificently. He said that this was how they
end up fighting all the time—there were plenty of those in the neighborhood
who found such richness and meaning in the experience of childhood
and turned into a woman and swept out on such a surge of life
and asked, “Are those shoes displayed in the window the ones you made?”
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