John W. Gardner says that History never looks like history when you’re living through it, yes. What does it look like when you can’t stop living through it, though? When it’s not even history to you yet? The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, yes, and the ceremony of innocence is drowned. Would that Ginger Baker weren’t caught in that tide. Would that her innocence hadn’t been drowned. “But this,” the girl Jennifer Daniels had been in high school would have said, “this is how it works, in a slasher cycle.” Just, never mind all the people who have to die along the way.
