Teenagehood is a crippling disease. I can tell because none of my children can walk anymore. Bus fares and car fares are eating up what little extra I have earned in royalties from my work.

[H]er splendid, idiotic body took charge, and before him, her unbra'd breasts rose up, their vulnerable, tender, uncontrollable, enslaving points hardened, stood out and lifted the fabric of her shirt in a sign as clear as if it had been shouted.

an illegitimate child

It was like a sea of people, two thousand at the least, black and white in the moon, with here and there a curved dah glittering.