into a tree

[gleb]

The day came when she decided to shave her head: I blame the influence of Annie Lennox. Emma and I were both in the same seminar group at the English faculty and one morning, after a stimulating discussion of A Winter’s Tale, we walked together down Sidgwick Avenue towards the centre of town. She pulled off her woolly hat so that I could feel the texture of her bare pate. In those days it was unlikely that anyone would have seen a woman as bald as an egg. A boy riding past on a bicycle turned to stare and, his panic-stricken eyes never leaving Emma’s shining scalp, rode straight into a tree. I never thought such things took place outside silent movies, but it happened and it made me happy.

Stephen Fry. The Fry Chronicles

вы, поди, не подумали бы, но это про Эмму Томпсон