Just when you think you can't learn anything more annoying about Marina Abramović annoying I read in Waldemar Januszczak’s column in The Sunday Times that at her sixtieth birthday she served ‘cocktails made from her own tears.’ This, says Januszczak, resulted in him not taking her quite as seriously as he otherwise might have. I think he’s putting it mildly.
Since Abramović was born in 1946 this party and the cocktail malarkey must have been in 2006 or so, and is therefore definitely old news to the world at large but it’s brand new to me, and reminds, inevitably, of Thomas Harris’s novel Hannibal which features martinis made with children’s tears, which sounds far more evil but no less ludicrous.
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