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We are already at a point where an appeal to rock 'n' roll will tell us almost nothing worth knowing, though this is, finally, a rock 'n' roll story. Real mysteries cannot be solved, but they can be turned into better mysteries.
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century
by Greil Marcus
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Date: 2004-07-09 05:13 am (UTC)This is one of the funniest lines you've written. I laughed out loud.
To me there at least are two kinds of queer subtext in the idea of "Lipstick Traces".
One is the obvious cigarette == phallic symbol, reminding us of lipstick traces on something other than a cigarette, with cigarette as stand-in.
The other is a drag metaphor, emphasizing the performative nature of drag and glam, the way that the makeup, the clothes, and the accoutrements combine very purposefully to achieve a dazzling performance, both a mask and a revelation.