milk-fed

In order to connect with accelerationists on the other side of the world, she used her foreign-language skills, recording messages in Russian in a “sexy-baby timbre and a heavy American accent” to convince a Ukrainian neo-Nazi that she was a milk-fed Midwesterner trying to learn new languages for the cause.

Both of these bright, kindred voices soothe me like a milk-fed baby, as they shore up against pessimism without ever being timid or false.

This dress takes the wholesome, milk-fed aesthetic of the prairie dress – and its ubiquitous high-street offshoot, the midi-length ditsy floral dress that has a ruffle at the hem and is probably being worn by someone in your office or railway carriage right now, probably with flat white trainers or ankle boots – and gives it a cheekboned, hungry kind of glamour.

And I realized that the hump can be good if you have a baby camel, still milk-fed.

But while those barriers are being broken down, you also get insights about life and the world around you, especially if you’ve grown up as a milk-fed American lamb to the slaughter, as we all were when we were told, “Go to Vietnam, but don’t ask why.”