January 09, 2009
The Recently Deflowered Girl - There aren’t really sufficient words to praise this hilarious, Edward Gorey-illustrated book of manners, "The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion". It absolutely blows my mind that this book was made in 1965, but, of course, the 1960s had their fair share of flagrant sexism and tacit racism.
Maybe it’s the clinical tone that the complete lack of articles affords the prose. Maybe it’s the amazingly coy illustrations or Miss H.P.’s razor-sharp wit. Whatever it is, these are the most delightfully offensive 47 pages I’ve ever seen. The irony level is staggering.
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Looks like you could also be the first person to write a review for it on Amazon....
Dubious honors, all around.
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Via MeFi, a non-taked-down version or an annoying download site download.
It'd be fair to say 'gee, go buy it' but... um.... $700 used in unspecified condition.
posted by mrflip at 03:31AM CST on January 11