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Turner Darryl

this vision of a fictional elizabeth taylor--written twenty-five years before the death of princess diana--is as prescient as anything in ballards science fiction. how did he get it so right? how did he know that the price we would demand, in return for our worship of the famous and the beautiful (with their unique bodies and personalities), would be nothing less than the bloody sacrifice of the worshipped themselves? oh, there were clues, of course: the myth of the decapitated jayne mansfield, jimmy dean with his prophetic license plate (too fast to live, too young to die.), grace kellys car penetrated by a tree. but only ballard saw how they were all related, only he drew the line of convergence clearly. once you see you cannot un-see. what are all the DUIs of lindsay lohan if not a form of macabre foreplay? p12 NYRB 10 july2014 on crash zadie smith

Posted on: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 23:40:22 +0000

this vision of a fictional elizabeth taylor--written twenty-five - TopicsExpress

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