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Date: 2012-03-30 09:24 pm (UTC)I thought that was the highlight of the volume, actually, turning the personification of evil in a children's book series into a guy who just casually molests a stranger tripping out on acid, during a concert. When you think that Valdemort is the badass of badasses, I get a kick thinking, "Oh, and he likes to feel strangers besides killing mothers in front of their children."
I also thought the scene was very interesting, culturally speaking; Moore's vision of the 1960s is dispassionate, as a serious writer's should be. He plumbs below the cliches that inform the popular view of the Love Generation and reminds us, "You know, those free-loving, peace-loving hippies were actually indulging in rape. These concerts weren't these great communal experiences wheve everyone was equal and lived in harmony. And they're our ancestors. How's that for the basis of the new generation?" The message may be harsh, but writers are not here to soothe us.