"When I worked in a Seattle peep show, I had a customer who told me his
name
was Excalibur and quietly slipped me his poetry. Part of my job, in that
moment, was to make him feel like a Knight of the Round Table. This
required
only a show of curiosity and respect. He must have found those things hard
to come by in the real world, though, because he paid me well to help spin
the illusion."
-- Elisabeth Eaves, author of Bare: On Women, Dancing, *** and Power
(Knopf,
2002).
Quoted from "The Lap of Luxury," New York Times, Editorials/Op-Ed, 25 Oct
2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/opinion/25eaves.html?ex=1287892800&en=11e43db480ff0b5f&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
The peep show that Eaves refers to is probably The Lusty Lady, though she
may have worked elsewhere as well. The Lusty Lady (Seattle, not the
original
in San Francisco) is the subject of a photo book by Erica Langley (Scalo,
1997). It was also featured on HBO's Real *** (#18).
|
