Good Day by Vesna Main

Author:Vesna Main [Main, Vesna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781784631925
Publisher: Salt Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

–I doubt it.

–You don’t think time will heal—

–I don’t know. But at the moment, it’s hardly funny. She opens the account and finds hundreds of contacts.

–So he will have to admit there wasn’t only one prostitute.

–Exactly.

–Your tinkering with the chapter: did you get rid of her demand?

–No. I think that’s a very important part of Anna’s psychology at that point.

–I thought you didn’t go for character psychology.

–To some extent. In fact, I don’t usually, but this novel demands it. It’s very difficult to play linguistic and stylistic games with an issue such as prostitution, particularly if you are a woman.

–You’re keeping that?

–Oh, yes. But I’ve altered it and added something else.

–What?

–Well, she looks up several of the women, stares at their images on websites, comments on their vulgarity, their cheapness. She sees their fees and services. She says she could do the same and better and she forces him to write her a cheque for a blow job. She demands £200 because she has a PhD. She says, you know, letters after the name make a difference. I don’t think your whores had PhDs.

–Hell hath no fury—

–Reluctantly, he complies, writes her a cheque. They sit on the bed and she handles his penis but he can’t get an erection—

–Hardly surprising under the circumstances.

–Your male empathy has no bounds. He wants to touch her breasts but she says that’s extra. He asks her to put him in her mouth. I’m not putting this piece of flesh, this piece that’s been in so many whores, I’m not putting it in my mouth without a condom, she says. He feels humiliated and he cries. They give up. And it’s then she says she’s no good, she needs to learn from a professional. He protests that she’s great; she has nothing to learn from anyone. She insists that he arranges to meet his latest prostitute, and this time in a luxury hotel, and that he has sex with the woman while she watches. He’s horrified but she says either he does that or he can move out.

–It’s the same as before. I don’t like that. She’s mad. He shouldn’t give in.

–He has no choice. Now Anna imagines the scene with the prostitute and Richard; in her mind it plays out as a scene in an Orson Welles film and she’s sitting in an armchair, in a very large hotel room, smartly dressed, stilettos, an elegant cigarette in her hand, as she observes the action on the bed.

–What’s the point of that?

–She’s out of her mind.

–That’s obvious.

–What I mean is that she’s out of herself. Literally. She sees herself as someone else. That’s her way of coping, playing a role.

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