“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.”
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.
“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.”