![]() ![]() The Bay Area German bar that brought down Apple’s famed iPhone security.This certainly isn't immediately apparent in the suggestive opening sequence, in which we watch the unfolding of "24 Hour Psycho," a video work by artist Douglas Gordon that apparently slows down the Hitchcock film so that the action of the movie stretches into the time period of the title, and "whatever was happening took forever to happen." Alas, in "Point Omega," the latest work of fiction by one of the most deservedly lauded writers of our time, the curse of self-parody appears to be taking hold. In the best of Don DeLillo's work - "The Names," "White Noise" - narrative distortions and reshapings of everyday life help us to see reality more clearly. ![]() That was famously true in the case of the late works of Hemingway, in which he rather strenuously began to sound as though he were writing parodies of himself. ![]() Sometimes fine writers reach the heights where, their readers hungering for every new work, they produce work that disappoints more than it excites. ![]()
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