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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Page 46
One doesn ' t know how one gets inside it . to get around - Out o I storio qeta
popo . motorcycle hoods . ñinnnnnnnnn a square a grass , like a carkivar online
reamy a newspapersrand fewer houses : down here . . . lots of roads lead to the
city ...
One doesn ' t know how one gets inside it . to get around - Out o I storio qeta
popo . motorcycle hoods . ñinnnnnnnnn a square a grass , like a carkivar online
reamy a newspapersrand fewer houses : down here . . . lots of roads lead to the
city ...
Page 69
I thought that people today when they move move only by car , train , boat , or
plane and so move only on roads . They perceive only the roads , the map , the
prison . I think it ' s becoming harder to get off the roads . I live on a desert island .
I thought that people today when they move move only by car , train , boat , or
plane and so move only on roads . They perceive only the roads , the map , the
prison . I think it ' s becoming harder to get off the roads . I live on a desert island .
Page 94
The townspeople think Pearl ' s evil because she lives off the roads . ' No man will
ever love a woman like you when you grow up , ' say the townspeople . “ The
roads are our civilization . They ' re the order men have impressed on chaos so ...
The townspeople think Pearl ' s evil because she lives off the roads . ' No man will
ever love a woman like you when you grow up , ' say the townspeople . “ The
roads are our civilization . They ' re the order men have impressed on chaos so ...
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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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