"Well, I have desires that don’t accord with the status quo." She’d said that many times, and now, for the first time, she began to sense what the slogan really meant. Why vivid people had made those words their slogan, why they would say such an apparently silly thing and say it without a smile. The status quo was the sine qua non of denied desire. Desire was irrational and juicy and transgressive. To accept desire, to surrender yourself to desire...to explore desire, to seek out gratification. It was the polar opposite of wisdom and discretion.