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 68
Hester ' s just stepping out of prison , out of prison , out of prison , but this is worse
: huge staring eyes , whispers , her child laughed at , mocked , she ' s a woman ,
this isn ' t reality , the eyes turn around and around she can ' t be who she is ...
Hester ' s just stepping out of prison , out of prison , out of prison , but this is worse
: huge staring eyes , whispers , her child laughed at , mocked , she ' s a woman ,
this isn ' t reality , the eyes turn around and around she can ' t be who she is ...
Page 94
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 that men ' s lives can be safer and more secure and , thus
, so that we ...
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 that men ' s lives can be safer and more secure and , thus
, so that we ...
Page 99
In this society there was a woman who freedom and suddenly the black night
opens up and fucked a lot and she got tied up with ropes and on upward and it
doesn ' t stop beaten a lot and made to spread her legs too wide the night is open
...
In this society there was a woman who freedom and suddenly the black night
opens up and fucked a lot and she got tied up with ropes and on upward and it
doesn ' t stop beaten a lot and made to spread her legs too wide the night is open
...
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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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