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352 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1984
Janine, barefoot, is slightly smaller than most women but in her shoes she is slightly taller than most men and can be read sexually from a great distance: slender waist, knees and wrists, plump hips and shoulders, big etcetera and dark, copious hair expensively disarranged. She is clever in a fragmentary way, bad at judging people but good at judging her effect on them. With make-up she can look like almost any female stereotype from the dumb adolescent to the cool aristocrat. Just now she looks like Jane Russell in a forties film, The Outlaw: eyes dark and accusing, lips heavy and sullen.
Modern technology cannot solve the world’s problems because in all societies technology is used to accumulate wealth, not spread it. The banking nations approve of revolts in the communist bloc, the communists want revolution in the capitalist bloc, but eastern communists grasp and increase their social privileges as much as our own Sunday-supplement-swallowing middle class…