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...where did all of this desperation come from? New York, you say? Good answer, but desperation goes too far back and strays too far afield from New York. For all its Newest Wave, mod feel, Susan traces its anxious female motif back to the gangster melodrama films of the 30's, with one twist. Like the vapid blonds in film noir, our housewife seeks her thrills in a more happening world, but there the comparison must end. Her idol is not a man, but Susan; her goal not to grab her idol's pants, but to wear them...
...used to be a Mod," she begins...
...couldn't handle the limitations. When you're a Mod you're not supposed to have any emotions. Now I'm a Quaker. They're feeling people. When you're a Quaker you can't hate anybody...
...turn back to the girl in the denim jacket, the girl who used to be a Mod but now considers herself a Quaker, the girl who admires Edie Sedgwick and gets turned on by Day-Glo running shoes...
...disappointing a sentiment this is from the formerly passionate mod who hoped he died before he got old and who wrote, in the rock-opera "Quadrophenia": "If you let them do it to you, you've got yourself to blame/It's you who takes the blame/It's you who feels the shame...