From: Jezzaroona
Category: Amis's Contemporaries
Date: 9/6/99
Time: 4:03:54 AM
Remote Name: 195.44.18.239
Cheers. Very much appreciated. The great denizens of the unwashed (an old NME soundbite?) at Jackson's Lane Community Centre next Sunday (see "Rachel's Papers" post below) will be much edified. I offer some classic Don DeLillo as thanks. (This bit jerks my tears.)
From *WHITE NOISE* by Don DeLillo: "The terminals are equipped with holographic scanners, which decode the binary secret of every item infalliably. This is the language of waves and radiation, or how the dead speak to the living. And this is where we wait together, regardless of our age, our carts stocked with brightly colored goods. A slowly moving line, satisfying, giving us time to glance at the tabloids in the racks. Everything that we need that is not food or love is here in the tabloid racks. The tales of the supernatural and the extraterrestrial. The miracle vitamins, the cures for cancer, the remedies for obesity. The cults of the famous and the dead."
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