The alchemy of metaphor
(2023)
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In Joan Didion’s biopic ‘The Centre Will Not Hold’ there’s a moment when she speaks of seeing a five year old girl on acid in Haight Ashbury.
‘It was gold,’ she says, sharp-eyed and birdlike.
Didion knew the power of writing to transform...
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