koestenbaum is full of fanciful jackie theories: jackie as a fictional character, jackie and the apocalypse, jackie and repetition, jackie and synesthesia, jackie and duration, jackie as a dandy, etc., etc.
in the midst of these awesome arguments emerges one thought i've never really bought into. the idea that jackie is a dynamic, eccentric figure, while jfk is a constant. jfk is always jfk. we know he died and that jackie lives on and, according to koestenbaum, that makes every photograph of the pair of them together appear unnatural-- as though jackie were standing alongside a cardboard cut-out of jfk.
i never gave this much thought until i saw this month's vanity fair. seriously.

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I have a cardboard cutout of my husband...
for reals???
I have a cardboard cutout of Boba Fett.
I do, I do. Hey, no one was commenting and somebody had to do it. I bought it from a website called "Flat Daddies". They printed out a life-size sticker of him (from the waist up) and I mounted it on foam core. So, he's sitting in a chair. I talk to him. And no, this is not comparable to the old woman with 49 cats.
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