A Writer's Notebook

A Writer's Notebook

19. Against Catastrophe Fetishism

I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed.

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Mar 01, 2022
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Actors Peter Sellers and Sterling Hayden as Group Captain Lt. Mandrake and General Jack Ripper, in a still from the Stanley Kubrick’s film "Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Came to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" (1964). Columbia Tristar.

I don’t have the time right now to do this subject justice, but I’m going to write my thoughts down anyway. Before I get to…

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