Impossible Desire
Posted in Men and Women by Peter W. Schramm
Paris Hilton cannot be glamorous because
she "is immediately 'knowable,' to the bottom of her (undoubtedly)
well-shod toes." Not so with Grace Kelly because true glamour produces
a pleasure born of negative emotions, "the pleasure associated with
not having." Glamour is all about "impossible desire" and it "courts danger."
Virginia Postrel contemplates all this in a book review in the current
Weekly Standard. Click
here to see why I love the cover (to enlarge, click image on the right) and why
Sonnet 106 is worth a read.
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