摘要：“Once upon a Time, Not Long Ago, O…”: The title of the Preface to Kathy Acker’s Pussy,
King of the Pirates at first may seem almost as trite as its pirate heroes. Almost, but not quite.
Acker’s perverse juxtaposition of these sing-song fairy tale words with one of the most
notorious female masochists of all time (O, of Pauline Reage’s The Story of O)[1] indicates
from the outset that this story will be both familiar and foreign to the reader’s storybook
sensitivities. For in the timbre of “Ago, O…” one hears the telltale tremors of trouble: “uhoh…”
