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Libra by Don DeLillo
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it was amazing

Dead president’s corpse in the driver’s car. The engine runs on glue and tar�
Let’s devote our lives to understanding this moment, separating the elements of each crowded second. We will build theories that gleam like jade idols, intriguing systems of assumption, four-faced, graceful. We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.

There is the system and there are those who serve the system. There are tomcats and there are cat’s paws.
Secret services saw in John Kennedy a real threat to their holding sway over the entire state:
“It’s not just Kennedy himself. He thinks he can make us a different kind of society. He’s trying to engineer a shift. We’re not smart enough for him� Do you know what charisma means to me? It means he holds the secrets. The dangerous secrets used to be held outside the government. Plots, conspiracies, secrets of revolution, secrets of the end of the social order. Now it’s the government that has a lock on the secrets that matter. All the danger is in the White House, from nuclear weapons on down.�

There is a secret world within the world� Clandestine movers and shakers live among us but they abide in the invisible world of their own.
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Reading Progress

November 24, 2009 – Started Reading
December 4, 2009 – Finished Reading
April 10, 2013 – Shelved

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Hanneke Ha, very poetic, Vit! Thanks!


message 2: by Vit (new) - rated it 5 stars

Vit Babenco Thank you, Hanneke. If it is poetry then it is the demonic poetry of darkness.


message 3: by Margitte (new)

Margitte So very true. Although I don’t think the power really manifests in the White House. I am currently reading a fascinating book about economic hitmen. My mind is still open for change, though. 🤓


message 4: by Violeta (new)

Violeta A poetic review of a book inspired by cruel reality, Vit.


message 5: by Vit (new) - rated it 5 stars

Vit Babenco Margitte, the second quote means that secret services accused the president of having too much power and they saw in John Kennedy a real threat to their existence.


message 6: by Vit (new) - rated it 5 stars

Vit Babenco Thank you, Ryan! Great novel.


message 7: by Vanessa (new)

Vanessa Not a fan of DeLillo but I’m here for your writing and The Doors quote.


message 8: by Lukasz (new)

Lukasz Pruski Yay! "Not to Touch the Earth"!


message 9: by Vit (new) - rated it 5 stars

Vit Babenco Thank you, Vanessa and Lukasz! I’m so glad that the Doors are still remembered.


Joseph Sciuto Wonderful review, Vit. One of the great books of the last 50 years, in my opinion. Happy you enjoyed the book.


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