The White Album

But just really quickly, I will say there is something about, I just don't know how effective it is at persuading or changing people's minds.

Because I think there are a lot of people who probably will read the White Album because it has a sick cover, which it absolutely does.

And see the Didion photography and read the vibe, feel the vibe of the writing and watch the interviews and the sunglasses and the like, and not process fully what's being said, but just kind of appreciate the, the artist, but not fully engaged with the art because we sometimes approach things on autopilot.

Like this is my expectation.

Because what does it really take to make a curse? Does it need to be something summoned by a witch, called for by a cult, sent forth from the unknown? Or can it sometimes just be a series of events that are so awful, so off, that our very human brains cannot process them Without needing more, without needing a narrative bigger than the tragedy.

As Dominique Dunne's aunt, Joan Didion, wrote in the opening line of The White Album, "We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five.

We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.