last tryst with Julie B

[fflo]

That's it; I'm done with her. In a moment I'll dispatch her back to the LoC, now that I'm sated, spent of desire & wash-my-hands finished, in a way she'd probably appreciate---though not as much, I suspect, as if I'd gotten to her. "This woman is an egocentric bitch," wrote a vandal among the volume's previous readers, having restrained herself from pulling out her ballpoint all the way until page 148 (of 197), and apparently not having noticed that Julie had proudly claimed that very identity more than once in earlier passages. What had prompted the need for retort? The suggestion that it's not getting married that's the trick for women, but getting AWAY.

The librarians are feeding us s'mores. They're leftover from a kids' thing. I was hungry, too. A/C Refuge closes in half an hour, and then I'll see about getting some right proper supper.

And now, Julie B, I ditch you, not a helluva lot better able to sympathize with your modus op. But I did take some pleasure in your company, while I felt like it.

Comments

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

away from what? marriage as a way to get away from the first family?

[vjsmom.livejournal.com]

What's the book again? (I looked at your links earlier, but I can't seem to find them now.) I think I might wanto check it out after I finish the P.D. James novel (The Children of Men, which is not a mystery, oddly enough) I'm geting ready to start.

<<it's not getting married that's the trick for women, but getting AWAY.>>

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that seems to be a theme among some people I know lately, one of whom is het-married-with-kids. Well, mostly het. Maybe. I think. Interesting that in the cultural parlance, it's the other way around. Figures about more women being available than men (except in China, of course), and women worrying about those stats. Meanwhile, I heard a 76-year-old woman use the word "mistake" recently in talking about her own marriage long ago.