The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 79 of 254
Belle de Jour chose the work that suited her
Reading Belle’s Best Bits, a kind of greatest hits collection from her two volumes of blogs, I quickly suspected not. It seemed Magnanti went into this line of work because it suited her. She sounded sexually experimental, easily able to divorce the erotic and the emotional, and pretty keen to do so. And when, in a Bristol pub not far from where Magnanti works, she told me about how she viewed her experiences, my suspicions became convictions.