LIBRA - Don DeLillo



Introduction:
Some stories never end. Even in our time, in the sightlines of living history, in the retrieved instancy of film and videotape, there are stories waiting to be finished, open to the trust of reasoned analysis and haunted speculation.

A couple of years ago, at a Warhol show that featured silkscreens of Jacqueline Kennedy, the museum director said, "Was Warhol a great artist? Does this work belong here? It's like asking whether three shots or four were fired at Kennedy. These are great questions."

A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

At twenty years old, all you know is that you're twenty. Everything else is a mist that swirls around this fact.

But idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by lies they've told themselves.

The Zapruder 8mm film, 19sec long (a witness filmed the JFK presidential parade and caught the shooting on camera): http://bit.ly/g6iRa9
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