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heather ordered me to post this when i showed her.

i was reading along in f. scott fitzgerald's the beautiful and the damned when i ran across this:

"She was composed, Anthony perceived, of a succession of semicircles and parabolas, like those figures that gifted folk make on the typewriter: head, arms, bust, hips, thighs, and ankles were a bewildering tier of roundnesses."

ascii art! in 1921!!!
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