Re-reading Proust. “We would
go into what he called his ‘study’, whose walls were hung with some of those
engravings depicting… a fleshy pink goddess driving a chariot… which were
admired during the Second Empire because they were felt to have a Pompeiian
look about them, were then hated, and are beginning to be admired again for one
reason and one only, despite the others that are given, and that is that they
have a Second-Empire look about them.” For engravings, read posters. For
goddess, read King of May. For Second Empire, read The Sixties. For Pompeiian,
read San Francisco.
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