In a message dated 12/10/13 7:28:54 PM, [email protected] writes:
> The aesthetic is usually associated with euphoria or the dread of the > sublime, and any attempt to disassociate it and make it into something > touched off by a football touch down seems very wrong. Almost > postmodern in the superficial sense. > > Back then I cited another "real life" event that, as it unfolded, I realized was taking on the feel of an a.e. was O.J. Simpson's "slow chase" in the white Bronco. As an a.e. it was faulty, of course, because it didn't have a fitting ending. It may be worth noting that many a "real life" event has been chosen for fairly faithful reproduction as a movie or play -- i.e. its shape and content was seen as the stuff of a.e.'s
