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September 26, 2012
Ten Little Indians Style: Wings Aflame, Moths Around The Flame of Eminent Domain Abuse Find Themselves Crashing Out Of The Picture In Succession
Noticing New York
Michael D.D. White sings a dirge for those perpetrators of Atlantic Yards who didn't make it to last week's arena ribbon-cutting.
It is happening in real life: They are dropping like flies! Remember the many “Ten Little Indians” films . . . quite a few remakes were made of the beloved yarn, derived from the Agatha Christie’s classic mystery tale? You remember the plot: A select little club of invitees (enticed for a frolic to a mysterious island) get picked off one by one and swiftly the ominousness and inevitable direction the scheme unfolding is understood by everyone, audience together with the crew of characters in the story itself: Pretty soon the group’s population is going to be brought to zero by the death-dispensing machinations of an unseen hand. Hence the other well known title for the story, “And Then There Were None.”
Spoiler Alert!: A key feature of the plot is that all of the doomed visitors had it coming, they all had previously been complicit in the deaths of others but escaped notice or punishment.
So it is with the cast of Atlantic Yards perpetrators. In real life they seem close to replicating what, although it was fun, seemed like a preposterously contrived plot!
Posted by eric at September 26, 2012 11:41 AM