a. natasha joukovsky
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After Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, where he tracks allusions to whales and cetology, I keep a running list of references to recursion, innovation, mythology, and glamour.
Virginia Postrel | THE POWER OF GLAMOUR
"Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus..."
“Glamour is not something you possess but something you perceive, not something you have but something you feel. It is a subjective response to a stimulus. One may strive to construct a glamorous effect, but success depends on the perceiver’s receptive imagination.”
Virginia Postrel | THE POWER OF GLAMOUR
"glamour can serve many purposes: individual and collective; personal, social, commercial, or political. The story of glamour is the story of human longing and its cultural manifestations..."
“glamour can serve many purposes: individual and collective; personal, social, commercial, or political. The story of glamour is the story of human longing and its cultural manifestations. Like other forms of rhetoric and art, glamour can embody good ideas or bad ones. It can inspire life-enhancing actions or destructive ones. Its meaning and its effects depend on the audience. But one thing is certain: glamour is not trivial.”
Virginia Postrel | THE POWER OF GLAMOUR
"like the gilded world seen through a candy wrapper, glamour is an illusion 'known to be false but felt to be true,' which focuses and intensifies a preexisting but previously inchoate yearning."
“like the gilded world seen through a candy wrapper, glamour is an illusion ‘known to be false but felt to be true,’ which focuses and intensifies a preexisting but previously inchoate yearning.”