■ tion between the fashion world and terrorism came from an abstract idea about the tyranny of beauty going on in the culture—how uneasy it makes everybody, how it makes everybody insecure about the way they look. Connect that with the insecurity of what terrorists do.” Okay, but listen to this passage from his book, part of a three-page description of a downed 747: “. . . the smell of rot is everywhere—coming off dismembered feet and arms and legs and torsos propped upright, off piles of intestines and crushed skulls, and the heads that are intact have screams etched across their faces.” Now did the tyranny of beauty ever make you feel that uneasy?
Cut back to table at Cafeteria. I show my girlfriend a folded copy of the New York Times’s review. The piece called Glamorama “sloppily contrived … [with
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