Titer is how you know it’s finals week. No sleep tonight, child. (Taken with instagram)

05.19.12 /23:19

Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl

“Sometimes X’s face is flushed and she has a roving eye; at others she is pale and listless. Often she cannot keep still, pacing up and down the bedroom, or balancing on one foot after the other… During these bouts X is incapable of anything: reading, conversation, games, are equally odious. All at once her expression becomes cynical, her excitement mounts. X is overcome by the desire to do it, she tries not to or someone tries to stop her. Her only dominating thought is to succeed. Her eyes dart in all directions, her lips never stop twitching, her nostrils flare! Later, she calms down and is herself again. “If only I had never been born,”she says to her little sister, “we would not have been a disgrace to the family!” And Y replies: “Why did you teach me all these horrors then?” Upset by this reproach, X says: “If someone would only kill me! What joy. I could die without committing suicide.”

-Demetrius Zambaco