The Pitfalls Of Prettiness
March, 1956
A satirical episode from Voltaire's masterpiece, CandideYou ask how I came to have only half a backside? Ah, sir, it is a long story and a sad one, but if you do not mind listening, I do not mind talking.Let me tell you that I have not always been a lowly servant-girl. I am of noble Italian lineage: I am the daughter of Urban the Tenth and the Princess of Palestrina. Until I was fourteen I was brought up in a palace to which all the castles of your German Barons would not have served as stables;...
