Posted on 29/03/03
In which Eric gets a haircut
CosmopolisBy Don DeLilloScribner, 209 pages, $39.50Cosmopolis is the story of doomed Manhattan prodigy Eric Packer and his white limousine. Eric is so rich that by dint of recent stock-market and terror-crisis history the book is carefully dated to happen one day in April of 2000, and not simply the ever-present. Among his high-tech toys, Eric especially loves his limo. He loves the limo the way a Don De-Lillo character loves something, because he thinks it's a "platonic replica, weightless for all its size, less an object than an idea. . . . He wanted the car because it was not only over-sized but aggressively and contemptuously so, metastasizingly so, a tremendous mutant thing that stood astride every argument against it."
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