On Public Death and Public Justice
It’s shaping up to be one of those years. You know what I mean. The last big one was 2016. The news reported Bowie’s death on January 10, and Alan Rickman a few days later, and then it was like a cascade—Harper Lee, then Prince, then Muhammad Ali, then Gene Wilder, then Leonard Cohen, then George Michael, then Carrie Fisher. Someone running those names on a real-stakes dead pool game that year would either break the bank or be hanged as a witch.
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