In the case of
LAFS, a place where James Earl Ray managed to jet off to in the snaggle-toothed
aftermath of Ray’s murder of
Martin Luther King Jr. Also a place where almost twenty years later Antonio
Munoz Molina, author of the novel “Like a Fading Shadow,”soaks in the sea air,
the unchanging street feel of the Portuguese capital.
What’s reduced
here is a labyrinthine dream, a plumbing of the human soul that sets judgment
aside for an animal watchfulness. We are dumbstruck in the modern age to fathom,
let alone give shape to the drumbeat thump in the mind of a cold-blooded
killer, this one perhaps the most famous to ever land on the FBI’s most wanted
list.
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