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Of course I went to museums then. Always did that. The big ones with the famous paintings, sometimes sculpture. Actually I was always in a museum. The city of London was a museum. In fact the whole tour was a trip in a museum - with weather. Doing the museums was a walk down high halls and into over-angular rooms, very hushed like funeral homes, solemn and sophisticate, with little-some or very big port-hole paintings, in the walls that you could look to out or in. The floors were high polished, dark-stained wood, sometimes creaky and mysterious. I developed the art of the walk. I was a street walker and it was an art, with quite a bit of dodgem, some line-dancing, and smooth moves, the fluidity of the dart.
Television - you could not be them; and if so with difficulty. My grandparents could not watch certain people. It was against their morals. It was against their class values. Anybody could watch a western, which was the media-most feed way back. Everyone was the same class. There was only the good, and the bad, as those affected by bad attitude and greed, and never class background. The stars, Lucy, Gleason, played every class and character. But at the same time they were Lucy and Gleason, always the same one-person. One size fits-all, and advertising corresponded.
They get a lot of rich people through the museums. Actually I didn't notice. I suppose, if I had learned the cost of clothes, but mostly I could not tell. They were all personalities to me. They were just bodies dressed in gossamer and didn't bloviate all over, because the museum was a church where people kept more respect, than probably even at a pope's funeral.
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