Why was the Visceral Realist's journal called Lee Harvey Oswald?
Is it blindly idealistic - LHO as a man who lived, killed and died as an outlaw dissenter?
Is it facetious - an ironic gesture of idolatry?
Or is it acknowledging the machine of persona creation that is The Spectacle? LHO was, by some accounts and according to conspiracy theorists, a wide-eyed confused little man made into a monster by the government through faked photographs, fake biography, false evidence, and the convenient counter attack by Jack Ruby.
Or is it a little of all three? How is the reader to interpret the title - do we laugh with the VRs or at them? Or do we raise our fist and say "yeah comrades?"
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Lee Harvey Oswald was a dyslexic, as was Roberto Bolano.
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