As the author points out time and again, we are living in dangerous times.Īll my life I have thought of secrets, what it costs to keep them! Why do we need them? Think of Lee Harvey Oswald, his family – the secrets. It felt like it all changed, a déjà vu for Princess Diana’s tunnel requiem. Kennedy the 35th President of the United States had just been assassinated. People of my age all remember where we were on Novem– at the swimming pool, in school, hanging in the pool hall, BANG! We were pulled to the images coming out of Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas, where John F. When he mentions the colour filters people could buy for their black-and-white TV sets, turning the screen into horizontal thirds of blue, pink and green – I had to laugh. from ‘The Conduct of Life’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson.ĭon DeLillo plugs one into a lot of things that no longer exist in the common mind.
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