His life is a grotesque parody, an overwrought pantomime in which he doesn't even play the main part but rather that of the overambitious fool whose arrogance and hubris have him daring to overreach the limits of his mediocrity only to leave him floundering comedically on the waves of his own tragic disappointment as the audience applauds, smiling on the rightful fall of the idiot who hoped.
Christopher Fotheringham
"Camp is also, but not always, the experience of kitsch of someone who knows what he is seeing is kitsch. In this sense it is the manifestation of aristocratic taste and snobbery: 'and as the Dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocratic in matters of cultu
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