No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

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DeLillo followed White Noise with Libra (1988) a speculative fictionalized take on the life of Lee Harvey Oswald up to the 1963 assassination of John F. I didn’t want to leave behind an enormous mess of papers for family members to deal with.

It's important to write against power corporations the state and the whole system of consumption and of debilitating entertainments [.