Anita Loos, "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1925).

"Paris is devine. ... Because ... in only a few blocks we read all of the famous historical names, like Coty and Cartier and I knew we were seeing something educational at last and our whole trip was not a failure. ... So when we stood at the corner of a place called the Place Vendome, if you turn your back on a monument they have in the middle and look up, you can see none other than Coty's sign. So I said to Dorothy, does it not really give you a thrill to realize that that is the historical spot where Mr. Coty makes all the perfume? So then Dorothy said that she supposed Mr. Coty came to Paris and he smelled Paris and he realized that something had to be done.

"I mean, Mr. Spoffard and I spent one whole day going through all of the museums in Munich, but I am really not even going to think about it. Because when something terrible happens to me, I always try to be a Christian science and ... I deny that it ever happened even though my feet do seem to hurt quite a lot. So even Dorothy had quite a hard day in Munchen because her German gentleman friend, who is called Rudolf, came for her at 11 o'clock to take her to breakfast. ... So he took Dorothy to the Half Brow house where everybody eats white sausages and pretzels and beer at 11 oclock. So ... he wanted to take her for a ride but they could only go for a few blocks because by then it was time for luncheon. So they ate quite a lot of luncheon ... and took her to a matinee. So after the first act Rudolf got hungry and they had to go and stand in the lobby and have some sandwiches and beer. .... So after a heavy tea, Rudolf asked her to dinner and Dorothy was to overcome to say No. So after dinner they went to a beer garden for beer and pretzels. But finally Dorothy began to come to, and she asked him to take her back to the hotel. So Rudolf said he would, but they better have a bite to eat first. So today Dorothy really feels just as discouradged as I seem to feel, only Dorothy is not a Christian science and all she can do is suffer.

"So he said there was a famous doctor in Vienna called Dr. Froyd who could stop all my worrying because he does not give a girl medicine but he talks you out of it by psychoanalysis. ... So Dr. Froyd and I had quite a long talk in the english landguage. So it seems that everybody seems to have a thing called inhibitions, which is when you want to do a thing but do not do it. So then you dream about it instead. ... So I told him that I never really dream about anything. I mean I use my brains so much in the day time that at night they do not seem to do anything else but rest. So then he asked me all about my life. ... So then he seemed very very intreeged at a girl who who always seemed to do everything she wanted to do. ... For instance did I ever want to do a thing that was really vialent, ... did I ever want to shoot someone.... So then I said I had, but the bullet only went in Mr. Jennings lung and came right out again. So then Dr. Foyd looked at me and looked at me ... . So then he called in his assistance ... . So then his assistance looked at me and looked at me ... . So then Dr. Froyd said that all I needed was to cultivate a few inhibitions and get some sleep."