ext_11697 ([identity profile] wombat1138.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] wombat1138 2006-10-02 12:12 am (UTC)

Well, one of her primary tenets is that she married Jim Morrison in a pagan ceremony, giving her the moral authority to guard his memory from people who didn't know him and try to twist his image into their superficial, misguided notions of who he was. It's consistent with her process in Blackmantle, where the lightly-veiled RPF is based on people she has directly known and loved-- with certain exceptions for whom she entirely *intends* the sort of disrespect which she describes as being involuntarily perpetrated by distant fans upon their would-be idols.

I should probably note that while I enjoy reading her essays, most of the subject matter ends up falling into my mental wasteland of "this is all very interesting, but I have no real sense of my own reaction to the substance of what's being said"-- sometimes it's because I don't completely grok what's going on, sometimes it's because I don't perceive any connection to egotistical moi and therefore can't be bothered to care, sometimes it's because I can't disentangle the objective core from the subjective presentation, etc. etc., but most of the time I have no idea whyfor things have been mentally wastelanded; they just are.

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