Up to this point, I had never read the actual novel. In her groundbreaking essay, “The Pornographic Imagination,” she wrote about Story of O. Some time later I became a fan of cultural critic and essayist Susan Sontag. Then I imagine I exited the store, simultaneously curious and horrified at humanity’s darker nature. Needless to say, since I was in high school, I didn’t really dwell on the text of said comic. While there I happened upon Story of O by the comics artist Guido Crepax. On one of those occasions I wandered into the comics and graphics novel section. Before the emergence of omnipresent Barnes & Noble, I hung around the various different sections of the rather smallish bookstore. Back in those days it would have been Scribner’s at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Personal History: During my high school years, I spent most of my time at the bookstore at the mall.
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