Word: virginally
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...virgin white dress...
...Administration in Washington, started his own sect, of which he was the only member. The Throne was his life's work. It occupied him for 15 years, and it was still unfinished, locked in a rented garage, at his death. It was provoked by visions of Moses, the Virgin Mary and Adam. They inspired him to raise a monument, not to a past event but to a future one-the Second Coming of Christ. Its centerpiece would be a throne on which God would sit, surrounded by his angels and saints...
...BECOME A VIRGIN by Quentin Crisp...
...sequel, Crisp, 73, starts out to recover the old self painted over by fame and notoriety-to become a virgin again. Here, he shows as much interest in society as sexuality. The English, he says, "want their jobs to be boring so that they can strike." An overnight Americanophile, he finds Los Angeles "a happy Ireland." On a Broadway director: He is the "very model of a modern millionaire; that is to say that he dresses for all occasions like a college student." On gay activists: "Anyone who demands acceptance places himself in the same position as a girl...
...Bitchy, Crisp acknowledges, but true. Even so, he says, "I have been very lucky. I asked for bread and was given a stone. It turned out to be precious." His book is a bit precious too. But it is also disarming and, in its way, valiant. The reconstructed virgin may be on his way to fulfilling a childhood dream: to become "a kinky" Elizabeth Barrett Browning. -ByJ.D.Reed