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Fritz Leiber - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes




The Girl with the Hungry Eyes

FRITZ LEIBER

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тАЬThe Girl With the Hungry Eyes,тАЭpublished in 1949, is a classic and will probably never become dated.
The advertising industry is still searching for тАЬThe LookтАЭ to sell products to the great American maw.
And with new technology continually being developed, the industry becomes more and more adept at
insinuating itself into our lives.

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All right, IтАЩll tell you why the Girl gives me the creeps. Why I canтАЩt stand to go downtown and see the
mob slavering up at her on the tower, with that pop bottle or pack of cigarettes or whatever it is beside
her. Why I hate to look at magazines any more because I know sheтАЩll turn up somewhere in a brassiere
or a bubble bath. Why I donтАЩt like to think of millions of Americans drinking in that poisonous half-
smile. ItтАЩs quite a storyтАФmore story than youтАЩre expecting.

No, I havenтАЩt suddenly developed any long-haired indignation at the evils of advertising and the national
glamour-girl complex. ThatтАЩd be a laugh for a man in my racket, wouldnтАЩt it? Though I think youтАЩll
agree thereтАЩs something a little perverted about trying to capitalize on sex that way. But itтАЩs okay with
me. And I know weтАЩve had the Face and the Body and the Look and what not else, so why shouldnтАЩt
someone come along who sums it all up so completely, that we have to call her the Girl and blazon her
on all the billboards from Times Square to Telegraph Hill?

But the Girl isnтАЩt like any of the others. SheтАЩs unnatural. SheтАЩs morbid. SheтАЩs unholy.

Oh itтАЩs 1948, is it, and the sort of thing IтАЩm hinting at went out with witchcraft? But you see IтАЩm not
altogether sure myself what IтАЩm hinting at, beyond a certain point. There are vampires and vampires, and
not all of them suck blood.

And there were the murders, if they were murders.

Besides, let me ask you this. Why, when America is obsessed with the Girl, donтАЩt we find out more
about her? Why doesnтАЩt she rate a Time cover with a droll biography inside? Why hasnтАЩt there been a
feature in Life or the Post? A Profile in The New Yorker? Why hasnтАЩt Charm or Mademoiselle done her
career saga? Not ready for it? Nuts!

Why havenтАЩt the movies snapped her up? Why hasnтАЩt she been on Information, Please? Why donтАЩt we

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see her kissing candidates at political rallies? Why isnтАЩt she chosen queen of some sort of junk or other