“Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people want them to be, and the way some women actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glitteringContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Drag Queens as Living Testimony (Andy Warhol)”
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RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: The Conspiracy of Married People (Andy Warhol)
“Being married looked so wonderful that life didn’t seem liveable if you weren’t lucky enough to have a husband or wife. To the singles, marriage seemed beautiful, the trappings seemed wonderful, and the sex was automatically implied to be automatically great-no one could ever seem to find words to describe it because you “had toContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: The Conspiracy of Married People (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fantasy Love vs. Reality Love (Andy Warhol)
“Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.” Andy Warhol, “Fame”, 1975.
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Better to be in the Dark About Love and Sex (Andy Warhol)
“But then I think, maybe it works out just as well that nobody takes you out of the dark about it, because if you really knew the whole story, you wouldn’t have anything to think about or fantasize about for the rest of your life, and you might go crazy having nothing to think about,Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Better to be in the Dark About Love and Sex (Andy Warhol)”
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