“As an eight-year-old I felt about pierced ears the way Oscar Wilde or Anaïs Nin felt about love; I wanted it to happen to me, I wanted it to hurt, and I wanted it to be beautiful.”
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"Babette's Feast" and the Protestant Envy of Catholicism
I suppose one always wants the things one can’t have; I find it a source of constant irritation that, having been brought up by evangelical Christians, I will never be a lapsed Catholic. I was speakin...
