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how is it that a television talking head, whom presumably none of us knew as a human being, can come to be treated like a friend who passed away?
do you have relationships with other tv characters?
it is a drag that russert died, yes, like it is a drag that anyone dies.
but to go from there to that strange area of fashioning a saint's reliquary in the image of the departed is a ritual generally reserved for people dealing with the loss of someone close to them, and so, by extension, to someone you actually knew.
there is something deeply deeply strange about this thread coming to a little conflict between those who are mourning for the "loss" of a television talking head-as-friend and those who tend to see russert as a television talking head. and there is something even more strange about the assumption that anyone *should* approach russert from one direction as over against another.
it's all more than passing strange.
think about it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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