{"id":4941,"date":"2008-03-21T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2008-03-21T17:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T11:46:00","slug":"bound-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/bound-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound For Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a wonderful excerpt from “The Virgin Suicides”<\/a> by Jeffrey Eugenides:<\/p>\n

\n

Like everyone else, we went to Alice O’Connor’s coming-out party to forget about the Lisbon girls. The black bartenders in red vests served us alcohol without asking for ID, and in turn, around 3 am, we said nothing when we saw them loading leftover cases of whiskey into the trunk of a sagging Cadillac. Inside, we got to know girls who had never considered taking their own lives. We fed them drinks, danced with them until they became unsteady, and led them out to the screened-in veranda. They lost their high heels on the way, kissed us in the humid darkness, and then slipped away to throw up demurely in the outside bushes. Some of us held their heads as they vomited, then let them rinse their mouths with beer, after which we got back to kissing again. The girls were monstrous in their formal dresses, each built around a wire cage. Pounds of hair were secured atop their heads. Drunk, and kissing us, or passing out in chairs, they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a wonderful excerpt from “The Virgin Suicides”<\/a> by Jeffrey Eugenides:<\/p>\n

\n

Like everyone else, we went to Alice O’Connor’s coming-out party to forget about the Lisbon girls. The black bartenders in red vests served us alcohol without asking for ID, and in turn, around 3 am, we said nothing when we saw them loading leftover cases of whiskey into the trunk of a sagging Cadillac. Inside, we got to know girls who had never considered taking their own lives. We fed them drinks, danced with them until they became unsteady, and led them out to the screened-in veranda. They lost their high heels on the way, kissed us in the humid darkness, and then slipped away to throw up demurely in the outside bushes. Some of us held their heads as they vomited, then let them rinse their mouths with beer, after which we got back to kissing again. The girls were monstrous in their formal dresses, each built around a wire cage. Pounds of hair were secured atop their heads. Drunk, and kissing us, or passing out in chairs, they were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBound For Life - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/bound-for-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bound For Life - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This is a wonderful excerpt from “The Virgin Suicides” by Jeffrey Eugenides: Like everyone else, we went to Alice O’Connor’s coming-out party to forget about the Lisbon girls. 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