"sell" sexual signifiers

"'Sell' Sexual Signifiers," July 18, 2022 (#199)

title from "The Epiphany of Female Flesh: A Phenomenological Hermeneutic of Popular Fashion" by Richard J. Alapack (2009)

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (2018)

Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro (1990)

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante (2011)

"Sell" Sexual Signifiers

Lately I’ve become vulnerable to earworms, and sure enough the song,

with many floundering efforts at its composition,

defeated him immediately, yet she had chosen to aim for a tie

that masochism was the root cause of all other human neuroses,

too young to be taken seriously, and had to dance with other

amazement. On a single day I had attracted the attention of a

Prince, Adele, and Frank Sinatra. And Mozart, lots of Mozart

immediately, magnificently. He said that this was how they

end up fighting all the time—there were plenty of those in the neighborhood

who found such richness and meaning in the experience of childhood

and turned into a woman and swept out on such a surge of life

and asked, “Are those shoes displayed in the window the ones you made?”

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