Phil Spector & Ronnie Spector
Via BuzzFeed. #truth
I know someone who will object highly to this.
brooklyn..access to Manhattan. Portland…access to…Beaverton
![“[the Newport mansions] are products of the metastasis of capital, the Industrial Revolution carried to its logical extreme…
…Men paid for Newport, and granted to women the privilege of living in it. Just as gilt vitrines could be purchased for the correct display of biscuit Sevres, so marble stairways could be bought for the advantageous display of women. In the filigreed gazebos they could be exhibited in a different light; in the French sitting rooms, in still another setting. They could be cajoled, flattered, indulged, given pretty rooms and Worth dresses, allowed to imagine that they ran their own houses and their own lives, but when it came time to negotiate, their freedom proved trompe l’oeil.
…Who could think that the building of the railroad could guarantee salvation, when there on the lawns of the men who built the railroad nothing is left but the shadows of migrainous women…” —Didion, “The Coast of Despair”
I’m learning about the Gilded age right now.](http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyg893uiEV1qzq7u7o1_400.jpg)
“[the Newport mansions] are products of the metastasis of capital, the Industrial Revolution carried to its logical extreme…
…Men paid for Newport, and granted to women the privilege of living in it. Just as gilt vitrines could be purchased for the correct display of biscuit Sevres, so marble stairways could be bought for the advantageous display of women. In the filigreed gazebos they could be exhibited in a different light; in the French sitting rooms, in still another setting. They could be cajoled, flattered, indulged, given pretty rooms and Worth dresses, allowed to imagine that they ran their own houses and their own lives, but when it came time to negotiate, their freedom proved trompe l’oeil.
…Who could think that the building of the railroad could guarantee salvation, when there on the lawns of the men who built the railroad nothing is left but the shadows of migrainous women…” —Didion, “The Coast of Despair”
I’m learning about the Gilded age right now.


