Dan Rather is the sphinx of our time, and his riddle is “Kenneth, what is the frequency?”
Who can forget our collective shock and bewilderment when we opened the New York Times and learned of the event? October 1986. A cool evening, upper Park Avenue, in the Eighties. Newsman and reservoir of trust, Dan Rather, dressed casually, walks home from dinner at a friend’s house...
article [Harpers; originally from December 2001. By Paul Limbert Allman]
~Canoodling with conspiracy theory: the writer had me at 'reservoir of trust' as if the ancient gods, relegated to news-anchors and such-like, walked among us. Donald Barthelme is a national treasure who deserves a wider readership.
[Selections from 60 Stories by Donald Barthelme]