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By Aaron Chan - December 10, 2004
White as Death
by, Aaron Chan
December 10, 2004
White as Death
Don DeLillo's novel White Noise confronts the primal fear of death much in the way his own characters do-- by nullifying or minimizing this otherwise terrifying human phenomenon. What is referred to as "white noise" in the novel is the barrage of modern life that blocks out most of what it…
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