A review by joegelay
The Tsar of Love and Techno: Stories by Anthony Marra

4.0

"Up ahead, a supermodel as lean and pointy as a stiletto stared right at me. She was probably part of a stylish Ocean’s 11–like con. She’d size me up and see I was perfect for the role of the dumpy clown whom the whole crew rallies around when George Clooney gets distracted by his charity work. We’d rob a Dubai emirate blind. I’d give my cut to starving orphans because I don’t do it for the money. I do it for the thrill. She’d leave George Clooney and we’d live forever in the desolate beauty of a Malaysian beach. Drinking mai tais for breakfast would never get old. Roll credits.

“Your zipper’s down,” she said as she passed me. Endurance, I reminded myself, is the true measure of existence."

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"The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present."