Shamanistic Daydream
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| Ziggy Stardust |
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| Thin White Duke |
Ziggy Stardust was not a drag act—he was a shamanistic daydream, half kabuki, half Weimar cabaret. With the Thin White Duke, Bowie did a rigorous, self-purging exercise in minimalism… As the Thin White Duke, Bowie shifted into Byron-in-exile mode; he was now a haughty, self-shielding arbiter of elegance in the Baudelaire manner… Ziggy Stardust had become too vampiric and had to be assassinated for Bowie to live.
Camille Paglia
Note: Paglia's Sexual Personae is in Bowie's top 100 reads list.
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