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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A clean people who didn ' t mess around with their lives , who knew they were
only alive once , who disappeared . The next section contains the largest
buildings , vast and fearsome . Thousands of endlessly wide steps on all sides
lead up to ...
A clean people who didn ' t mess around with their lives , who knew they were
only alive once , who disappeared . The next section contains the largest
buildings , vast and fearsome . Thousands of endlessly wide steps on all sides
lead up to ...
Page 32
We knew we couldn ' t change the shit we were living in so we were trying to
change ourselves . I hated myself . I did everything I could to hurt myself . I don ' t
remember who I fucked the first time I fucked , but I must have known nothing
about ...
We knew we couldn ' t change the shit we were living in so we were trying to
change ourselves . I hated myself . I did everything I could to hurt myself . I don ' t
remember who I fucked the first time I fucked , but I must have known nothing
about ...
Page 66
If I knew how this society got so fucked - up , if we all knew , maybe we ' d have a
way of destroying hell . I think that ' s what Hawthorne thought . He set his story in
the time of the first Puritans : the first people who came to the northern North ...
If I knew how this society got so fucked - up , if we all knew , maybe we ' d have a
way of destroying hell . I think that ' s what Hawthorne thought . He set his story in
the time of the first Puritans : the first people who came to the northern North ...
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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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