At this point Claire's face indicates that she is well aware of feminist rhetoric and dialectic but is beyond being able to extract an appropriate quote.
eschatological You-Are-There accounts of what it's like to be Bombed
"And then I had an uncontrollable reaction. Blood rushed to my ears, and my heart went bang; I broke out into a sweat and the words of Rilke, the poet, entered my brain — his notion that we are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to r…
"[...] you know all of this sex gossip and end-of-the-world nonsense, I wonder if they're really only confessing something else to each other."
"Like?"
"Like how scared sick they all are. I mean, when people start talking seriously about hoarding cases of Beef-a-Roni in the garage and get all…
