flânerie, bananas, getting dead & being stoned, gay & generally self-identical: Edmund White (on), Josephine Baker & Théophile Gautier & foregoing Foucault
The rear end exists. I see no reason to be ashamed of it. It’s true there are rear ends so stupid, so pretentious, so insignificant that they’re good only for sitting on.
– Josephine Baker, quoted by Edmund White,
The Flâneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris
, Bloomsbury,