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When You Are Strange

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When You Are Strange poster art

Somebody said let's get a picture, and this is what happened.

Look at him in front. The jacket is new. The sunglasses are new. He has been dead and reassembled since before the automobile, and he has decided that this year he is the coolest thing in the graveyard, and nobody has the heart to tell him the shades are a size too small.

Behind him, in order: the one who does the talking, the one who does the biting, the one nobody invited, and the fellow at the back who was told there'd be food.

Four hours they held that pose. Not one of them casts a reflection, so not one of them has the faintest idea how it came out.

Wait till they see.

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From The Morgue

Children learned the monsters as a group long before they saw a single film. By the early 1960s the same faces hung on every rack in the seasonal aisle — the flat-headed man, the wolf, the bandaged one, the count — and they arrived as a set, boxed, at a price a parent would agree to. A generation could name all six and identify none of the pictures they came from. That is why they read as a gang rather than a list: the merchandise put them in a room together decades before any script did.

They were a cast before they were characters.

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