09 June 2009

B is for...


A is for adultress...

Credit P. Byrnes at the New Yorker.

3 comments:

  1. Definitely Bastard.

    Up until about the 1960's, "Bastardy" was an actual crime. "Illegitimate" children had almost no rights in American society. This would be fitting as the adultress apparently had a child as a result of her infidelity, and the child is likely how she got caught.

    Bastardy was eventually done away with as it was finally recognized that it was a crime which punished a person who did not commit the act; why should a young innocent be punished for the parents' actions?

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