VV(18): The young girl ...

[Dave Monroe]

"Afterward Gerfaut the writer sat by a window,
discoursing on how for some reason the young
girl--adolescent or younger--had again become the mode
in erotic fiction." (V., Ch. 14, Sec. i, p. 402)

Talk about yr self-reflexivity, talk about yr
metafiction ... Delores Haze in Lolita, Melanie
l'Heuremaudit and Lucille in V., and, shortly
thereafter (albeit the old lady here), Candy in, well,
Candy (spoiler warning: cf. "Papa!").  Hey, here's
something interesting ...

http://www.terrysouthern.com/archive/SKint.htm

And "Gerfaut" = "faucon gerfaut" = "gerfaucon" =
"gerfalcon" = "gyrfalcon" = falco rusticolus = why? 
Chicken hawk?  Ptarmigan hawk, more like ...

http://www.hawk-conservancy.org/priors/gyr.htm

Let me know ...

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