"Your Monday item about the young Uptown woman who had never been north of LaPlace reminded me of a passage from John Kennedy Toole s A Confederacy of Dunces, " says Preston
Hairspray, makeup, high heels, camp: I don t care for any of these things, so contemporary drag performance holds little interest for me. It is, apparently, of the greatest interest to some members of our state Legislature, in the sense that television dance shows were of interest to the great moralist Ignatius J. Reilly, who felt compelled to sit before the TV set in his bedroom and catalog every offense, every last lurid move by the depraved teenaged dancers.