“The Mirage’s entertainment director asks Klara if she’ll let Raj saw her in half – “Easy-peasy; won’t hurt a bit” – but she refuses. He thinks she’s afraid of the trick when the truth is that she could give him an hour-long tutorial on P. T. Selbit and his misogynistic inventions: Destroying a Girl, Stretching a Lady, Crushing a Woman, all of them perfectly timed to capitalize on postwar bloodthirst and women’s suffrage.”
