I am going to stay in bed this morning as I am quite upset as I saw a gentleman who quite upset me. Typos today are, for once, not my own work. Almost every sentence begins ‘So’ or ‘I mean’, and her deep thoughts are about as perceptive as her spelling is correct. The joy of the novel is the voice Loos creates for her blonde. She is not aided by her unrefined friend Dorothy, whom I absolutely love – Lorelei attempts to refine her, but Dorothy’s slang and insults (“Lady, if we hurt your dignity like you hurt our eyesight I hope for your sake, you are a Christian science”) are thankfully unfettered by decorum – they’re hilarious. These thoughts she has been encouraged to note down in her diary… she is admirably determined to educate herself, but rather more determined to secure diamond tiaras etc. Lorelei is the blonde in question, going around America and Europe bewitching rich men and thinking deep thoughts.
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