tommy wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
Yeah, the rise of the Female Personal Essay is built on tics like that: not just the thinking, feeling, wanting to say, but dissociating from everything, too.
Yeah....my niece does these now....family members send them to me and then ask me about them at family parties....I use the word "interesting" many times in my replies...
I'm reading the Best American Essays 2016 -- guest-edited by none other than Salieri-to-DFW's-Mozart Jonathan Franzen! -- and there was one personal essay that caught my eye. It was by a woman who talked about how she goes insane if she doesn't get laid for two whole months and has taken to fucking married men in national parks. Apparently it all started as a child when her friend taught her how to cyber on AOL, which got her so turned on that she immediately started rubbing herself against a support beam in her friend's basement, or when she would eat ice cream cones on the train as a child and deep-throat them so lasciviously that businessmen had no choice but to watch her facefuck her ice cream.
But this was not just any train, it was a Metra train! She accurately described its "ill green lighting." And not just any Metra train but the Northwest Line, as googling her turned up that she's a 2003 graduate of Hersey High School. Had my parents not been forced to move for work when I was in grade school, I'd have been an '04 graduate, and given my interests, surely would have crossed paths with the AP English superstar who dry-humps metal poles. I lament that I went to a shitty rural high school quite often, but today I'm lamenting it just a little more.
So I guess what I'm asking is, is this your niece?
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