
The White Album, by Joan Didion
Supercontext: an autopsy of media
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The White Album: A Companion's View of Amos
I think there is a little bit of that sexist tone and that's condescending to everything that he's saying, but at the same time he's like, ah, I see like the same kind of masochistic tendencies that I myself have in Didion's work. At no point in the white album does mis Didion think about the sort of people she would never normally have caused to come across. She writes as a conformist who is trying to understand the limits of conformity. He says there are two main things that aren't there, i.e. in her book.
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