“People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there. But then you wouldn’t have romance, because romance is finding your fantasy in people who don’t have it. A friend of mine always says, ‘Women love me for the man I’m not.”Continue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fantasies Giving Rise to Problems (Andy Warhol)”
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RKS British Literature: A Not so Glamourous Parisian Pension (George Orwell)
“How Elizabeth loathed that pension! The patronne was an old black-clad sneak who spent her life in tiptoeing up and down the stairs in hopes of catching boarders washing stockings in their hand basins. The boarders, sharp-tongued bilious widows pursued the only man in the establishment, a mild, bald creature who worked at La Samartine,Continue reading “RKS British Literature: A Not so Glamourous Parisian Pension (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: “Beastly” and “Lovely” Learnt at Expensive English Boarding-School (George Orwell)
“Elizabeth was sent for two terms to a very expensive boarding-school. Oh, the joy, the joy, the unforgettable joy of those two terms. Four of the girls at school were ‘the Honourable’; nearly all of them had ponies of their own, on which they were allowed to go riding on Saturday afternoons. There is aContinue reading “RKS British Literature: “Beastly” and “Lovely” Learnt at Expensive English Boarding-School (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Life of Lies of the British in India (George Orwell)
“Your whole life is a life of lies. Year after year you sit in Kipling-haunted little Clubs, whisky to the right of you, Pink’un to the left of you, listening and eagerly agreeing while Colonel Bodger develops his theory that those bloody Nationalists should be boiled in oil. You hear your Oriental friends called “greasyContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Life of Lies of the British in India (George Orwell)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fascination with Boys Spending Their Lives Trying to be Complete Girls (Andy Warhol)
“I’m fascinated by boys who spend their lives trying to be complete girls, because they have to work so hard-double time getting rid of all the tell-tale male signs and drawing in all the female signs. I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do, I’m not saying it’s a good idea, I’m not sayingContinue reading “RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Fascination with Boys Spending Their Lives Trying to be Complete Girls (Andy Warhol)”
RKS AMERICAN LITERATURE: Drag Queens as Living Testimony (Andy Warhol)
“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)”
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 British Literature: A Hatred of British Imperialism in India (George Orwell)
“The Indian Empire is despotism-benevolent, no doubt, but still a despotism with theft as its final object. And so to the English of the East, sahiblog, Flory had come to hate them from living in their society, that he was quite incapable of being fair to them. For after all, the poor devils are noContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Hatred of British Imperialism in India (George Orwell)”
RKS British Literature: A Third-Rate Public School Experience in England (George Orwell)
“From that school he went to a cheap, third-rate public school. It was a poor spurious place. It aped the great public schools with their traditions of High Anglicanism, cricket and Latin verses, and it had a school song called “The Scrum of Life’ in which God figured as the great referee. But it lackedContinue reading “RKS British Literature: A Third-Rate Public School Experience in England (George Orwell)”
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