cultivate a messianic persona
"Cultivate a Messianic Persona," October 9, 2022 (#282)
title from "The Troublesome Legacy of the Early Romantics" by Nikhil Krishnan (September 26, 2022)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson (1971)
Elvis in Vegas: How the King Reinvented the Las Vegas Show by Richard Zoglin (2019)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Cultivate a Messianic Persona
We were forced to stand in line with all the others--which proved to be
a stir with her revealing gown, a skintight black net affair that appeared to be
the prizes and looks straight into the tv camera which starts zooming.
I felt dizzy. It was too much to absorb all at once. From freedom, to prison,
there was, of course, no shortage of people who wanted to be friends with
a sign from the girl, but the show proceeds in its "normal" fashion
so I mashed on the brake, hurling my attorney against the dashboard
with books of spiritual and religious seeking. He had a high school kid’s
clothes. They are all in a pile on the bed. He talks to himself. Maybe
I ran out to the runway and tried to get aboard, but the door was
bookended by blue-rinse perm grandmas in print dresses wearing
against it. They are all staring at her now. No one says anything.
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