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A moda é um ramo da estética, da arte da sociedade moderna. É também um passatempo das massas, uma forma de divertimento de grupo, uma forma de cultura popular. Estando relacionada tanto com as artes sérias como com a arte popular, ela é uma espécie de arte-espectáculo.

While Sinatra sneered about 'kid singers wearing mops of hair thick enough to hide a crate of melons' and Noel Coward blustered that they were 'totally devoid of talent' and Lou Reed thought they were 'garbage', classical composers and critics, maybe smarter or perhaps just less bitter and envious, were often (and often very quickly) more embracing.

She wasn't old enough to vote. She wasn't old enough to drink in a pub. She couldn't get married without her father's consent. Freda Kelly was just 17(.) She worked (.)as The Beatles' fan club secretary. On her first day in the job, the mailbag consisted of two letters. A couple of weeks later it was forty. Soon there were eight hundred a day, which made Freda regret giving her home address as the fan club contact.

O ataque ao consumismo apreende o nosso mundo como uma teia inteiriça de opressão; não temos qualquer espécie de autonomia, somos os escravos de um fortíssimo sistema(.).Todos os nossos prazeres se transformam(.)nos narcóticos de uma sociedade opressiva; e a ópera, a música pop, os romances policiais e as grandes obras literárias têm também, em consequência, de ser logicamente condenados ao lado da moda.

it wasn't just teenage girls losing their minds anymore.(...)at concerts, in multiple countries, respectable, seemingly sane adults had started wheeling sick or disabled children into their dressing rooms, asking the Beatles to bless and cure them, as if they were saints or something.

If you had walked into an Elvis show in 1955, you would have seen it and heard it immediately: his body, their voices. The screaming was so loud that his band used to joke that they had to watch Elvis's ass just to keep time with the music.

Mrs. Willow era uma mulher grande e avassaladoramente vocal; não só tinha um peito farto, como também um vago ar de quem deixara alguma coisa de importância vital cair-lhe ao decote e agora não a encontrava, porque toda ela se sacudia e estremecia, olhando-se com tão grande entusiasmo que qualquer pessoa que a visse naquilo tinha de se refrear de lhe oferecer ajuda.

He described a steady stream of girls coming out of Elvis's room 'in tears or hysterical that he didn't love them'. He'd try to reassure them as he ushered them out. I'd say, "No, that's not true. He'll call you again." Of course, he almost never did. But with some of the younger ones, he'd be like the tooth fairy, slipping hundred-dollar bills in their schoolbooks.

[O título é Swoon ou Buffoon?]

- Vais jogar gamão?(...) - Esta noite?(...)É um comportamento reles - pronunciou-se a tia Fanny.- Estamos numa casa enlutada.
- Estou segura de que o Lionel se teria abstido de morrer passando-lhe pela cabeça que o funeral me impediria de jogar a minha partida de gamão, tia Fanny.

'It is a frightening thing for a man to watch his women debase themselves,' said the Vancouver Sun.'If any daughter of mine broke out of the woodshed tonight to see Elvis Presley(.),I'd kick her teeth in'.(.)'We might suggest a gift for these fourteen thousand Miami girls who, as if it were a fetish, are vocally and mentally genuflecting to Elvis Presley:A SOLID SLAP ACROSS THE MOUTH.'

[Adorável.]

Frankie's publicist(.)branded him Frank Swoonatra & announced that more than 1,000 Frank Sinatra fan clubs with names like the Moonlit Sinatra Club, the Slaves of Sinatra, the Flatbush Girls Who Would Lay Down Their Lives for Frank Sinatra & the Frank Sinatra Mahjong Club were now springing up across the country.

Frank [Sinatra] was twenty-three that summer but looked younger. At 5ft 7.5in., his slight figure and baby-blue eyes gave him a boyishness and frailty that was as disarming as it was strangely attractive, especially to women. A year earlier, he'd been arrested on a charge of seduction (sleeping with a woman under the false promise of marriage).

On 11 September 1964,The Beatles were scheduled to play in Florida(.)when they were told the show would be racially segregated. (.)they argued against it(.)There were nineteen days of negotiations. Eventually the Jacksonville Gator Bowl was desegregated for the first time.To The Beatles, raised in a multi-ethnic city on the black music of Tamla Motown, segregation and its implicit rationale, racism, was 'just stupid'

(.)Fascher grew to love The Beatles,taking them under his wing and warning anyone who gave them trouble that he would 'find them'.He became their informal bodyguard during their Indra and Kaiserkeller days when they slept four to a room next to the toilets in the Bambi Kino cinema and even took them home to Neustadt to meet his mum,who would cook them pea soup in the same cauldron she boiled their underpants in.

'It was like a merry-go-round in my head. They looked absolutely astonishing(.) All I wanted was to be with them and to know them' she recalled, which is a great testament to their personal magnetism since, for the entirety of his first two seasons in Hamburg, George never bathed or showered.

[De onde viria a tontura?]

Trovão plano, todo o meu coração, poderão usar Brahms por trás dele.
Embotado, branquiço, mortífero como a linha de giz de um
carpinteiro.
Não Beethoven - Beethoven não consigo aplanar.

30,000 fans flooded the streets outside Campbell's Funeral Home on Madison Avenue where [Rudolph] Valentino's body was lying in state.(.)Windows were smashed, a car overturned and at least a hundred people, many of them women and children, were injured (.) By the end of the day, a makeshift emergency room had to be erected in the reception of the funeral home. The scene was a war zone.

Para obter o som toma tudo o que não é o som e larga-o
Por um poço, escuta.
Depois larga o som. Escuta a diferença
Estilhaçar


[Anne Carson ou Yoko Ono?]

the most famous theatre riot of the 19th century, the Astor Place Riot of 1849,began as a dispute between die-hard Edwin Forrest fans, the infamous Bowery B'hoys, and fans of British actor-on-tour William Charles Macready over which actor was better at being Macbeth. By the end of the night, 22 people had been killed, 141 injured (including 50 policemen) and the identity of the best Macbeth was still open for debate.

The doctor's rambling discourse on 'magnetism, galvanism, electricity, contagion...hysterical epilepsy, and the phenomenon of titillation', was more sexual innuendo than medical diagnosis. With references to aphrodisiacs and ancient women's fertility rites, the doctor was basically saying what everyone already knew but couldn't quite say out loud: Liszt was sexy as hell, and everyone was feeling it.

O nome Lázaro é uma abreviação do hebraico 'El'azar,
que significa "Deus ajudou."

Há muito que me interesso por aqueles que Deus ajudou.
Parece frequentemente ser o caso,
p. ex. com santos ou mártires,
que Deus os ajuda com bastante mais sofrimento do que teriam tido
sem a ajuda de Deus.

Freud passou o Verão de 1876 em Trieste
investigando o hermafroditismo nas enguias.
No laboratório do zoólogo Karl Klaus
dissecou
mais de um milhar para verificar se teriam testículos.
"Todas as enguias que abri são do sexo fraco," relatou após as primeiras 400.
Entretanto
as "jovens deusas" de Trieste mostravam-se inaproximáveis.
"Uma vez
q não é permitido dissecar seres humanos nada tenho de facto a fazer com elas"

In the spring of 1960(.)[Royston Ellis] instigated what seems to have been The Beatles' first drug experience, showing them how to crack open a nasal inhaler and to chew the Benzedrine-soaked strip to achieve an amphetamine high.'We cracked up the Vicks inhaler, ate it and sat up all night till nine the next morning rapping and burping up the taste' remembered George, affectionately.

[Tanto Vicks que desperdicei...]

"The increase of novels', said a 1792 pamphlet entitled The Evils of Prostitution and Adultery, 'will help to account for the increase of prostitution and for the numerous adulteries and elopements that we hear of in the different parts of the kingdom.'

Preferimos a ilusão da autoconfiança e abraçamos a nossa ignorância pela única razão de que é nossa. Não importa que a confiança numa falsa opinião seja o pior tipo de dependência.Não importa que, graças à teimosia, deixemos passar uma oportunidade de sermos felizes.Preferimos ir ao fundo com o navio, em vez de vermos os nossos nomes raspados do casco.(.)todas as crianças querem apertar o fecho do seu próprio casaco.

Ninguém pode suster uma opinião por nós. É nossa - ou, melhor dizendo, é uma extensão do nosso ego, um dispositivo protético. Quando ela é atacada ou descartada, sentimos que se tocou num ponto muito íntimo. E quando ela falha, sentimo-nos envergonhados. Sócrates defendia que não há vergonha em estarmos errados, apenas em agirmos de forma errada. Ele tinha razão. Mas não é assim que nos sentimos.

This was the beginning of a period Liszt scholars call his 'years of transcendental execution', but Keith Richards would probably have called it the greatest rock tour of all time: eight years of piano smashing and existential rapture, baby.(.)Liszt hired a man called Gaetano Belloni as his personal secretary (or the world's first ever tour manager) and barnstormed Europe(.)play[ing] over 1,000 shows.

From 1812 onwards, Byron's devastatingly handsome face was everywhere(.)Women who met him in person reported breathlessness and heart palpitations. Others fainted.(...)One Lady Lovell, on a trip to Rome, is said to have averted her daughter's eyes when they came across Byron in St Peter's Square. 'Don't look at him,' she said, 'he's dangerous to look at.

As modern readers, we might look at these letters and see only cringeworthy torrents of hyperbole and melodrama, but in 1812, that was the point. In sitting down to write to Lord Byron, these women had found a safe place to feel and express - to experiment with being Byronic themselves.

Se a procura da verdade tivesse lugar num estado de total ignorância, não haveria razão ou ocasião para resistir. Não é esse o nosso caso. Em vez disso, quase todas as indagações começam com uma falsa opinião preconcebida que implica um investimento emocional.