Tom Walker says:
> > Sexism & commodity fetishism make many men unable to distinguish
>> human beings called "women" from dolls & bachelor machines.
>
>The obverse of this true observation is the emasculation of the man
>without money. There are no "innocent" positions outside the infernal
>circle of sexism and commodity fetishism, nor is it by any means a feature
>peculiar to heterosexual relationships.
With regard to the man without money, one may turn to Emily Bronte,
_Wuthering Heights_ (1847); Charles Dickens, _Great Expectations_
(serially published between 1860 and 1861); Thomas Hardy, _Jude the
Obscure_ (serially published between 1894 and 1895); Richard Wright,
_Native Son_ (1940); Ralph Ellison, _Invisible Man_ (1952); etc. And
beyond heterosexual relationships, consult Oscar Wilde, _The Picture
of Dorian Gray_ (1891); Patricia Highsmith, _The Talented Mr. Ripley_
(1955), for instance.
BTW, have you seen _Surviving Desire_ (1991) by Hal Hartley?
And also think about the predicament of artists in the market:
***** Plaint
Money and art
Are far apart
Langston Hughes *****
Yoshie
