Cities were built to measure time, to remove time from nature. There’s an endless counting down, he said. When you strip away all the surfaces, when you see into it, what’s left is terror. This is the thing that literature was meant to cure.

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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.

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