putain

Updated: June 3, 2025

"my wife sat over there, she spoke to No one and bothered Nobody why was my wife taken here and shut up? Had she done anything? There is a wife who fait la putain and turns, to everyone and another, whom I bring another tomorrow ... but a woman who loves only her husband, who waits for no one but her husband " " Ces cigarettes ne fument pas!"

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room

And the Machine-Fixer, whose opinion of this blond putain grew and increased and soared with every day of her martyrdom till the Machine-Fixer's former classification of les femmes exploded and disappeared entirely the Machine-Fixer who would have fallen on his little knees to Lena had she given him a chance, and kissed the hem of her striped skirt in an ecstasy of adoration told me that Lena on being finally released, walked upstairs herself, holding hard to the banister without a look for anyone, "having eyes as big as tea-cups."

E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings - The Enormous Room