http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/packages/uk/articles/smith/smith2.html
Zadie Smith’s “Alphabet”—free association on 26 topics. “Girls, (Pretty): … Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and women, and finally they ruin themselves, accidentally, simply by getting old. I think about them. Sometimes I want them and sometimes I worry about them—even though it’s not my business to do so. I wonder about them. …”