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It Takes a Village To Eat a Rockefeller: My NEW Taki’s column

March 25, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

I really needed a few thousand words so I could fold in a bunch of stuff on Primitivism, class, noble savages and so forth — but this will have to do for now…

This evidence is convincing, so why Hoffman felt obligated to go full Capote on his readers is a mystery in itself.

A la In Cold Blood, the author presumes to speak, think, and feel for Rockefeller. We’re informed that when fatally speared, “Michael screamed, groaned a deep, inhuman sound.”

Lines such as “He knew that feeling from swimming off the coast of Maine every summer” are pretentious and a little ironic.

Don’t cannibals presume to absorb the spirits of their victims, too?

 

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