Sex and Rage. Eve Babitz

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      Copyright © 1979, 2017 by Eve Babitz

      First Counterpoint paperback edition: July 2017

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Babitz, Eve, author.

      Title: Sex and rage : advice to young ladies eager for a good time / Eve

      Babitz.

      Description: Counterpoint Edition. | Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2017]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017005020 | ISBN 9781619029354 (paperback)

      Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Literary.

      Classification: LCC PS3552.A244 S49 2017 | DDC 813/.54--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017005020

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material: T.B. Harms Company: Excerpt from “Beyond The Sea” (“La Mer”) by Charles Trenet and Jack Lawrence. Copyright © 1945, 1946 Raoul Breton. Copyright renewed 1973, assigned to T.B. Harms Company. Copyright © 1947 T.B. Harms Company. Copyright renewed 1975, assigned to MPL Communications, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. Edward B. Marks Music Corporation: Excerpt from “Manhattan” by Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers. Copyright © MCMXXV by Edward B. Marks Music Corporation. Used with permission. MPL Communications, Inc.: Excerpt from “Beyond The Sea” (“La Mer”) by Charles Trenet and Jack Lawrence. Copyright © 1945, 1947 T.B. Harms Company. Copyright renewed 1973, 1975 Whale Music Company, a division of MPL Communications, Inc. International Copyright Secured. All Rights Reserved. Used by permission. Warner Bros., Inc.: Excerpt from “Autumn in New York” by Vernon Duke. Copyright © 1934 Warner Bros., Inc. Copyright renewed. All Rights Reserved. Reprinted by permission.

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      Three phases have succeeded each other during the span of my life. In the first the questions would be: “But who is she, dear? Who are her people? Is she one of the Yorkshire Twiddledos? Of course, they are badly off, very badly off, but she was a Wilmot.” This was to be succeeded in due course by: “Oh yes, of course they are pretty dreadful, but then they are terribly rich.” “Have the people who have taken The Larches got money?” “Oh well, then we’d better call.” The third phase was different again: “Well, dear, but are they amusing?” “Yes, well of course, they are not well off, and nobody knows where they came from, but they are very very amusing.”

      —An Autobiography,

      Agatha Christie (1894–1977)