Mlle Apache, bienvenue!

We welcome Jane O’Grady as Mademoiselle Apache, evidently an enthusiast for headbutting violence. Writing in The Observer in May 2008, she describes some of the things she likes to do:

Feeling yourself observed, concentrating on your headache, using your head as a weapon with which to butt someone, transforms it into a thing or a tool separate from you, the agent and observer.

This detachment has indeed been M. Apache’s experience in these circumstances, head down on the Boulevard Raspail. We hope Mlle Apache will become a true headbutter, in every sense of the word. Our only fear is that she may turn out to be too intelligent for the pages of The Observer.