In the box seats J Edgar Hoover plucks a magazine page off his shoulder, where the thing has lighted and stuck. At first he’s annoyed that the object has come into contact with his body. Then his eyes fall upon the page. It is a color reproduction of a painting crowded with medieval figures who are dying or dead – a landscape of visionary havoc and ruin.
Text: Don Delillo, Underworld
Image: Pieter Bruegel, The Triumph of Death
