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Blogging for Penguin, day 2

Sima’s Undergarments for Women opens with breasts. “Sima surprised herself by blushing at the round perfection of the young woman’s breasts,” it reads. “For thirty-five years, after all, breasts had been her business.” Over the next 13 lines, I detail them. By this point in Sima’s publishing career I’ve done lots and lots of readings: [...]