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DAVID_BOWIE

                                             January 12, 2016
                                             
                                             
   Bowie covered a lot of territory          
   over the years-- his genius for           
   self-reinvention has long been a      Another well-established cliche is
   cliche, and there are times when      to comment on the plethora of
   conventional wisdom isn't wrong.      Bowie memorials and commentary,
                                         and then add still another.
   It's also not exactly a                   
   stunning insight to remark on                  MISMATCHED_PAIR
   his ability to play with the              
   stuff of persona-- he would go            
   into character on stage, and              
   *stay* in character off stage,            
   and then later, he would start            
   doing interviews leveling with            
   you about how it was all an               
   act, but while doing that I               
   think he was playing still                       VORTEX
   *another* character.                      
                                               
   Bowie was always really slippery and shifty      
   in a way that I think completely defeats         
   those who want to feel like they *get* what      
   he's about.  There's something disturbing           "President Joe,
   about living with the prescence of a                once had a dream--"
   ferocious intelligence that's essentially        
   unknowable.                                      
                                                   
         Iman comments in interviews that she      
         fell in love with David Jones,            
         and that "David Bowie" was just a         
         character he played.  I submit that    
         that's entirely plausible, but that   
         it's *also* plausible that the        
         "David Jones" was a character he        
         played for an audience of one.          
                                                 

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