Dramatis personæ Josephine, An Englishwoman Mallory, An American The Matter At Hand: Buying drinks individually v. rounds Josephine: I started drinking with my friends in pubs regularly around the age of sixteen or seventeen – whenever it is that girls are fully grown and men can no longer distinguish between oneself and a thirty-year-old. On a Friday night we would sit in one of an enormous chain of public houses and buy rounds of pints of…
Because of the taboo on torsal nudity, it is worse to overheat if you are a woman than if you are a man, and the last few weeks in London have been abominable. It isn’t just too hot for the British, with our reptile blood and undeveloped hearts – it is too hot for anybody. What’s that faint sound, wafting on the wind? Lo, it is the rub of thigh upon reddened thigh, the trickle…
