MONEY & CLASS

«Like most superstions the religious faith in money has some basis in fact. When Andy Warhol was shot twice by one of his deranged film stars in June 1968 the ambulance drivers didn't recognize him for a celebrity. They picked him up at his New York «Factory» on a poor but trendy street and on the way to the hospital, thinking him as worhtless as everything else in the neighborhood they didn't feel compelled to hurry. Warhol noticed that the ambulance was stopping for red lights and mumbled something about the urgency of his wound. For an extra $15 the drivers said they would turn on the siren».


-Lewis Lapham
Money & Class in America.