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It's Wednesday, November 2, 2016 from Slate It's The Gisdai, Mike Pasca. I read a great book

review in the Times today. A great, bad review, Dwight Garner really did not like the memoir

by the performance artist Marina Abramovich. He says he knew he wouldn't like it by page 10,

quote, where she declares that as a child growing up in post-war Yugoslavia,

shouldn't play with dolls or toys instead she writes in a passage that sets this book's tone

of sleek international, bono-level pretentiousness, quote,

I prefer to play with the shadows of passing cars on the wall. Bono-like pretentiousness. I'd add

David Blanian, Pomposite, and Gwyneth Paltrow-esque, Gloupe. In fact, in a move that Gwyneth might

cop, she signed up these performers to recreate her works a few years ago in the All-Decina contract,

requiring them to fast on green tea and water to sleep on the floor of a barn and to practice

nostril-flushing and tongue scraping. Marina Abramovich's works are art why because of the intention

of the artist. I want that gig. Actually, I kind of have that gig. Intentions about 90% of

podcasting, the RSS feeds the other 10%. Anyway, here's Marina reading from her memoir

about what pived her about the interiors of the house she grew up with.

When I was young, I thought our flat was the high of luxury. Later I discovered it had once

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