The End of Love
My Sex and the City obsession has led to reading the book, as well.
“Welcome to the Age of Un-Innocence. The glittering lights of Manhattan that served as backdrops for Edith Wharton's bodice-heaving trysts are still glowing--but the stage is empty. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember--instead, we have breakfast at seven A.M. and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. How did we get into this mess?
Truman Capote understood our nineties dilemma--the dilemma of Love vs. the Deal--all too well. In Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak were faced with restrictions--he was a kept man, she was a kept woman--but in the end they surmounted them and chose love over money. That doesn't happen much in Manhattan these days. We are all kept men and women--by our jobs, by our apartments, and then some of us by the pecking order at Mortimers and the Royalton, by Hamptons beachfront, by front-row Garden tickets--and we like it that way. Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. Cupid has flown the co-op.
- Candance Bushnell, Sex and the City
We are leaving for LA in four hours. I hate long car rides. You're stuck for too long in your head.
“Welcome to the Age of Un-Innocence. The glittering lights of Manhattan that served as backdrops for Edith Wharton's bodice-heaving trysts are still glowing--but the stage is empty. No one has breakfast at Tiffany's, and no one has affairs to remember--instead, we have breakfast at seven A.M. and affairs we try to forget as quickly as possible. How did we get into this mess?
Truman Capote understood our nineties dilemma--the dilemma of Love vs. the Deal--all too well. In Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak were faced with restrictions--he was a kept man, she was a kept woman--but in the end they surmounted them and chose love over money. That doesn't happen much in Manhattan these days. We are all kept men and women--by our jobs, by our apartments, and then some of us by the pecking order at Mortimers and the Royalton, by Hamptons beachfront, by front-row Garden tickets--and we like it that way. Self-protection and closing the deal are paramount. Cupid has flown the co-op.
- Candance Bushnell, Sex and the City
We are leaving for LA in four hours. I hate long car rides. You're stuck for too long in your head.