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Anna Nicole Smith’s Mythic Proportions

February 16, 2007 | 2 Comments

The natural impulse, on seeing the whole stir over Anna Nicole Smith’s increasingly bizarre and sad family drama and, now, unexpected and untimely passing, is to think: Fury, signifying nothing. But…
Where we are now is in some kind of afterecho of a tragedy. But which one? Several come to mind:

Oedipus at Colonus (a.k.a., as some would have it, Oedipus […]