“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.”

"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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