“He especially liked ads for shampoos and hair coloring. The women in them seemed to regard their hair as independent, capricious entities, whom they must placate and provide with food.”

—  Thomas M. Disch

"The Black Cat".
The Man Who Had No Idea (and other stories) (1982)

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Novelist, short story writer, poet 1940–2008

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