that day a call girl walked by ucl
'jeudi, janvier 29
Snow yesterday afternoon--near UCL, students dashed out of the Union and Archaeology to gather up handfuls of snow and throw them at each other. Clusters of girls walked by in twos and threes, huddling under umbrellas. Though it had gone dark, the light was calm, diffuse: a warm glow of streetlights reflecting off the puffy duvet-sized flakes coming down.'
by Belle de Jour
It appears the protagonist of 'Diary of a London Call Girl' was walking pass Little E's grand Archaeology Department building last Wednesday, just how cool is that? So, who is she anyways, the winner of Guardian's best written blog last year? Some have guessed that she might be London based young writer Zadie Smith, using nom de plume 'London Call Girl'. I haven't read any of her works yet so cannot really tell. The fact is: people can't seem to accept the existence of an educated prostitute. Just like ones who can't imagine Shakespeare, a fine country lad who has no clear evidence of receiving university education compose such masterpieces. However, London Call Girl did go to uni, and as quoted, she 'studied a wholly academic humanities subject useless to the world at large'. This makes me quite worried for I am falling into the same category--S says she is most likely to be either a Philosophy or an English major. I admire her ability to remain anonymous; I, on the other hand, find it difficult not to tell a secret.