For those of you who participated in reading "You Don't Know Me" by David Klass in my book club, I don't think it's hard to remember a certain chapter: "Chapter 7: Torture Island." In this chapter, John passes a note to the prettiest girl in school. In the note, he is asking her out on a date. And here is what happens:
"She folds my note back up. Without looking at me--without even an eye blink or a nose wrinkle--she raises it to her lips. For one wild instant I think she is going to kiss it. But then her lovely lips, like twin rosebud petals in spring sunlight, spread themselves open. Her pearly teeth part. She eats my note" (pg.72).
The other day, Justin and I were sitting in our Script Analysis class, and I was very bored. This particular day in class, something caught my eye. A girl in the row in front of us was tearing a plain, white peice of paper into strips. Nothing freaky or funny, just a little unusual. Not something most people do. I decided to watch, just for the fact that it was something different to stare at.
Well, what happened next? She folded one of the strips into a small square, put in in the palm of her hand, put her hand up to her mouth, and slipped the paper into her mouth. She then proceeded to chew the paper and swallow it. I was in shock. I grabbed Justin's arm and couldn't find the words to describe what I had just witnessed. Justin and I then both watched as she downed the entire sheet of paper, strip by strip. We've watched her eat up to a sheet of paper a day for weeks.
Justin and I have our own ideas into this girl's activity, but we'll never know for sure. Anybody have any theories?
4 comments:
Wow. I wish I could have witnessed that! That is so strange. Is she pregnant?
Iron deficiency or pica
I'm gonna say it's a new Hollywood dieting plan. Or she's from space and can only survive on paper.
That is a serious amount of paper--I think there is a specific eating disorder that is related to this activity. It grosses me out to think about what it is doing to her insides.
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