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...... Of course, Vowell comes across plenty of dust in her travelssome museum curators literally become curios or artifacts themselves, entombed in their own museums like the bits and pieces of the presidential corpses, or the corpses of their killers, the popularity and mere existence of such attractions is testimony to the innumerable eccentric ways that people manage to squeeze personal and civic meaning out of a world framed by pop culture, with all its predictable uniformity and leavening quirks a quirkiness that Vowell embraces, even while she satirizes it (Tumber BW12). Although when we look at the past we may be revealing more about our present needs than history itself, Vowell also provides perspective and context to what we might call purely contemporary attitudes. She learns that long-term presence of such the gruesome play-by-play and horrible violation of the dying is not a unique one. Crowds gathered at newspaper and telegraph offices to await the icky medical bulletins emanating from what turned out to be Garfield's deathbed. One day, for instance, the world learned he had had a free discharge of healthy-looking pus.' And after he finally left this mortal coil, the poor man suffered one last invasion of

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