Belle De Jour’s Dirty Secret – She’s A Geek!
And as the mega-successful anonymous call-girl blog writer Belle De Jour reveals herself to be one Dr Brooke Magnanti, beating an ex-boyfriend loking for a payoff to the punch, I suddenly remember I know that name.
Magnanti wrote occasionally in her scientific guise for Barbelith, the Grant Morrison/Invisibles spinoff forum site. Stuff like this;
We agreed to save the brain for last: “If anything looks even remotely like a cause of death, we’re not opening that head.” On the table, a partially mummified corpse. Its fingers were yellow and shrivelled; there were black tattoos on grey skin. “It’s brain soup in there. I’d rather not know.”
And stuff like this;
Show me someone who is fascinated with the idea of his own death and I’ll show you someone who has never touched a dead body. For thoughts and actions of self-harm are the byproducts of natural curiosity coupled with growing up in a society that has allowed ignorance to be codified in tradition and law.
Yup, it’s not just live bodies she seems to have a lot to write about. Anyway, she must have just loved being played by a Doctor Who assistant in ITV2′s Diary Of A Call Girl. Hell, she even writes science-fiction.
Right. Now how do we get her to write the graphic novel?
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