Horizontal Woman (1973)
“She feels that it is important to retain some connection to the social rituals of the outer society or so she has told herself but as she stands in a huge room, backed against a wall with a watered drink in her hand, watching the medical students & college graduates descend upon her like a group of slumlords … she realizes yet again that her dedication and interests must most truly lie in the area of social dislocation. “Come on up to my pad, you’ll love it,” a heavy, sweating medical student t...ells her, rubbing his palms together, “and anyway we’re in a time of the complete destruction of the double standard, am I right? Am I right? am I right?” he says and puts his hands on her back. She feels their pressure like shells against her spine and tries to put down a flare of revulsion. “No,” she says, “I’m just waiting to meet a girlfriend here, we have to go somewhere together,” but that is no good for the medical student; he is insistent, he is desperate, his name, he says, is Harry and he is as much entitled to consideration as anyone in the room.MoreLess
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