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..."
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..."
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."