Blood and Guts in High School"Janey lived in the locked room. Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her to be a whore. Otherwise there was nothing. One day she found a pencil stub and a scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with 'Parents stink.' Her father, who is also her boyfriend, has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her ... post-punk porn to post-punk feminism ... detailed eroticism with detailed politics and ... 'pop content'--a montage of conversation, description, conjecture, and moments snatched from history and literature"--Page 4 of cover. |
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Genet murmurs to me : ' He ' s a pig , a brute , insulting and shoving people
around ! The skeleton ... Finally , when the building ' s being locked up , the
skeleton pig tells Genet that I can get a passport if I have the proper papers . A
fine rain is ...
Genet murmurs to me : ' He ' s a pig , a brute , insulting and shoving people
around ! The skeleton ... Finally , when the building ' s being locked up , the
skeleton pig tells Genet that I can get a passport if I have the proper papers . A
fine rain is ...
Page 138
Rebels ( to Janey , who just escaped from gaol with Genet ) : You stink . Get out
of here . We don ' t need shit - ass dogs like you . Go to the sewers . Janey :
Please tell me if the world is horrible and if my life is horrible and if there ' s no
use ...
Rebels ( to Janey , who just escaped from gaol with Genet ) : You stink . Get out
of here . We don ' t need shit - ass dogs like you . Go to the sewers . Janey :
Please tell me if the world is horrible and if my life is horrible and if there ' s no
use ...
Page 139
Genet : Poverty and gaol are just the beginning . Don ' t you know that by now ?
Soon there ' ll be no more sleep and you ' ll have to eat thistles . Janey : Thistles ?
Genet : Sand . Janey : There ' s really nobody . Nothing . Not a living thing .
Genet : Poverty and gaol are just the beginning . Don ' t you know that by now ?
Soon there ' ll be no more sleep and you ' ll have to eat thistles . Janey : Thistles ?
Genet : Sand . Janey : There ' s really nobody . Nothing . Not a living thing .
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Contents
Inside high school | 7 |
Outside high school | 44 |
Janey becomes a woman | 56 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Blood and Guts in High School An Evergreen book |
| Author | Kathy Acker |
| Publisher | Grove Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 4 Mar 2008 |
| ISBN | 0802130755, 9780802130754 |
| Length | 165 pages |
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