developer.* Blogs - Wild Teenage Beatnik Parties on the Island of the Ghost Teachers - Comments http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/287 Comments for "Wild Teenage Beatnik Parties on the Island of the Ghost Teachers" en Wild Teenage Beatnik Parties on the Island of the Ghost Teachers http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/287 <p>John Updike has a short story in which a young boy is working in a grocery store in a Massachusetts beach colony. Three girls walk in for a lark in their bikinis. Two of them are giggly and ashamed but a third, little Queenie walks in with head erect and proudly. The manager says to the girls “this isn’t the beach” and asks them to leave. Upon which the story’s protagonist quits his job.</p> <p><a href="http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/287">read more</a></p> http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/287#comment Blog Post Sun, 06 Nov 2005 03:26:05 -0800 Edward G Nilges 287 at http://www.developerdotstar.com/community