Word: libra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sign: Libra...
SCORPIO: Just cause your symbol is a snake, don't think of yourself in such negative terms. Snakes are good for the Yard. (See LIBRA...
...LIBRA: The Yard is full of possibilities. There are a million blades of grass. And many trees...
...YEARS AGO, JAMES ELLROY picked up a copy of Libra, Don DeLillo's 1988 fictional meditation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. At the time, Ellroy was a writer with a growing cult reputation; his crime novels, set in his native Los Angeles--The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential--had shown up on paperback best-seller lists and inspired much chatter among mystery fans: here was a guy who had pushed the genre way, way past hardboiled, into the realm of the terminally scalded. Ellroy seemed set on a path toward at least a shot...
...something about Libra unsettled Ellroy. It was too good. DeLillo's imagined journeys into the minds of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby, among others, had an eerie density and plausibility that Ellroy admired and did not want to emulate. "When I finished the book," he remembers, "I said, 'Now I can never write about that subject...