The vitamin has been reified. A chemical intangible originally defined as a unit of nutritive value, it was long ago reified into a pill. Now it is a pill; no one except a few precise scientists define it as anything else. Once the vitamin became a pill, it became real according to the precepts of American Cartesianism: I swallow it, therefore it is.
Florence KingHe travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
Florence KingTime has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence KingThere is more sexism in a year's worth of movies than actually exists in a woman's entire lifetime.
Florence KingWhen you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New York you encounter paranoids who wonder if you will commit suicide--not that they care; what they worry about is blood on their fresh paint, a dubious smell in the hallway, or a hole in the awning as you pass through on your way to the sidewalk. The Southerner who moves to any part of the country has problems, but the culture shock that attacks the Southerner who moves North is almost indescribable.
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