Bullet Vibrator in the Boston Public Library Reading Room
Boston Public Library · afternoon
The Boston Public Library reading room has forty-foot ceilings and absolute silence and she has brought a bullet vibrator in her cardigan pocket specifically because of those facts — she finds the...
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The ceiling is the first thing she checks. Forty feet of coffered plaster and gilt, vaulting over Bates Hall like the inside of something that has never once been interrupted. She tilts her head back just slightly — a tourist's gesture, which she is not — and...