Going Loco

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Lynne Truss. Going Loco

Contents

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Part Two

Seven

Eight

Nine

Ten

Part Three

Eleven

Twelve

Thirteen

LYNNE TRUSS. Eats, Shoots & Leaves

LYNNE TRUSS. Talk to the Hand

LYNNE TRUSS. Get Her Off the Pitch!

LYNNE TRUSS. Making the Cat Laugh

LYNNE TRUSS. With One Lousy Free Packet of Seed

LYNNE TRUSS. Tennyson’s Gift

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LYNNE TRUSS

Going Loco

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Thus, if well-intentioned people chose to flatter Belinda in a feminine way, it just confused her. ‘Buy yourself a lipstick,’ Viv’s mother had said during her university finals, giving her a five-pound note. But the commission had made her miserable. She’d hated hanging around cosmetics counters with this albatross of a fiver when she could have been revising the Gothic novel in the library. Belinda’s revision timetable had been incredibly impressive, and very, very tight. Only when Viv absolved her with ‘Buy some pens, for God’s sake,’ did she race off happily and spend it.

Yes, for someone who lived so much in her head, it was an alien world, that feminine malarkey. Luckily the other-worldly Stefan didn’t mind too much, but Belinda’s well-coiffed mother despaired of her, and left copies of books with titles like Femininity for Dummies lying around in her daughter’s house. Yet even as a teenager Belinda had flipped through all women’s magazines in lofty, anthropological astonishment, amazed at the ways contrived by modern women to occupy their time non-productively. Facials, for heaven’s sake. Leg-waxing. Fashionable hats. Stencils.

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