My client told me that she would go to a bar and have a few drinks. Someone would start to
talk with her. She would end up at his place or her place with him. The evening would proceed,
inevitably, to its sexual climax. The next day she would wake up, uncertain about what
happened—uncertain about her motives, uncertain about his motives, and uncertain about the
world. Miss S, we’ll call her, was vague to the point of non-existence. She was a ghost of a
person. She dressed, however, like a professional. She knew how to present herself, for first
appearances. In consequence, she had finagled her way onto a government advisory board
considering the construction of a major piece of transportation infrastructure (even though she
knew nothing about government, advising or construction). She also hosted a local public-
access radio show dedicated to small business, even though she had never held a real job, and
knew nothing about being an entrepreneur. She had been receiving welfare payments for the
entirety of her adulthood.
