Friday, November 7, 2008

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott painting

John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott paintingLeonardo da Vinci The Last Supper paintingLeonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa Smile painting
ritual_ -- driven, perhaps, by the nonentity's longing to be noticed, to rise out of the. ruck and become, for a moment, a star. -- Or by a kind of transposed deathwish: to kill the beloved and so destroy the self. -- _Which is the Granny Ripper?_ a questioner asks. _And what about Jack?_ -- The true outlaw, the head insists, is a dark mirror-image of the hero. -- _These rioters, perhaps?_ comes the challenge. _Aren't you in danger of glamorizing, of "legitimizing"?_ -- The head shakes, laments the materialism of modern youth. Looting video stores is not what the head has been talking about. -- _But what about the old-timers, then? Butch Cassidy, the James brothers, Captain Moonlight, the Kelly gang. They all robbed -- did they not? -- banks_. -- Cut. -- Later that night, the camera will return to this shop-window. The television sets will be missing.
-- From the air, the camera watches the entrance to Club Hot Wax. Now the police have finished with wax effigies and are bringing out real arrested persons: a tall albino man; a man in an

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