From today's The NY Times review of "POOR PEOPLE" by William
T. Vollmann:
As his devotees have come to expect, many of these
tantalizingly spare settings involve prostitutes or drugs.
Here's one: "The Mexicali street prostitute Angelica, who
came into my room at the end of a night's work, stinking of
urine and sweat, assured me: I'm not poor because I can
work." Here's another: "She had flaccid, smelly flesh and
wide brown eyes; she fell asleep in my lap and there were
lice in her beautiful brown hair."
(Whoa!)
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