“She told this story in other conversations as…

“She told this story in other conversations as well. It was classic Laurie Anderson stuff: gently dystopian, with nods toward both progress and reversion. She had learned to write in the second person from William S. Burroughs, she said, and from Jean-Luc Godard that a story needs a beginning, middle and end, though not necessarily in that order.”

Laurie Anderson’s Glorious, Chaotic New York
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/nyregion/laurie-anderson-new-york.html
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