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We have seen the vampire

posted by Zed on July 9 2002 20:19

From A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Evil:

"There is something very vampire-like about the United States," [Jemiah] Jefferson says. "Charming, attractive, downright sexy, but sucking all the life and resources out of the planet, and making most of the rest of the world want to do so too."

I find that analogy brilliant. (Apropos of little, I met Jemiah at Johnzo's birthday party last year.) Also from the article:

"9-11 resembled cheap, lazy fiction," says horror author Neil Gaiman [...] "and because it did, it made it strange for writers to decide what is valid artistically."

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