Ouyang Yu: ‘First Lady ‘
First Lady
Either Billy or Ed said
I ought to be president
Whereupon Don said, “Well, I
absolutely refuse to be First
Lady!” He laughed when he
said it and they all
laughed too, but it was
a curiously daring remark for
Don to make in that
circle, because he is always
a little afraid of embarrassing
them … by bringing up the
queerness thing.
Ouyang Yu
(Copied and re-arranged from a paragraph in Christopher Isherwood, Liberation: Diaries, Volume Three: 1970–1983, page 188.)
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