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I made the rules
and I said that the chosen idol should be alive, try and get close
to them I said. Not exactly like a stalker but just to feel how
it is to have a close encounter with a miuch-admired figure.
Meetiing with
an idol is an interesting concept, can they ever live up to our
fantasies, and maybe we should stay at a safe distance, safe with
our memories of the artefacts of their fame. Meetings are dangerous
they are messy and embarrassing. We can't be the composed ffigure
of the encounter that happens within our head. So lets do it, lets
try and get close and see how it feels.
Then there is
the question of what an idol is. It could be someone we want to
sleep with or it could simply be someone that we admire and know
we could never be. Whatever, I can't be bothered with pedantic definitions
and I leave the writers to interpret it as they wish.
Cathy Lomax
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