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Northanger Abbey, actually. (Sorry.)
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From: John Bishop <jbishop at blkbrd.zko.dec.com>
Subject: Re: Lara of There_are_Doors
...Laura is my idea of what a pagan goddess might be
who survived into the Christian world...
This was only a phrase to me until I saw the July 9-24
issue of "Rolling Stone", which featured Madonna on the
cover as a blue-eyed blonde. "Aphrodite!" I said to myself,
or Wolfeanly, "Lara!".
There was the beauty--the desirable beauty--combined with
intelligence and power, and a kind of super-human aloofness
which tells you that you can desire but you can't hope to
dominate. There was the mutable Idea of creative female
power: reinvented as a blonde, a brunette, as Marilyn Monroe
or the girl next door. There was the immortality of a
creature outside our moral rules.
Given Wolfe's age, Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola in "The Blue Angel" is probably more along the lines of what he was thinking of. Madonna is only a brassy imitation.
-alga