Olivia Laing
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938 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 10 Aug
Olivia Laing’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, I think so.
By bearing witness to
This is such an appropriate final reading.
Jack had the idea of doing a couple of paragraphs for the end, but it's so much an answer to your question as well and to your question, Lara, actually.
He checks the frogging at a wrist.
He is making clothes for rapists who will never be indicted, clothes for murderers who will reappear in the next government still wearing the same shit-eating grin.
Everyone knows it.
Nobody says anything.
How people will hate this film.
At the same time, he knows that it is also Pasolini tearing his own heart out after Linetto, the boy he loved more even than his mother.
He knows that the film is a true story about how things are, the terrifying ugliness of unchecked power.
And at the same time, it's a vision drained of colour by its maker's own despair.
It's a bloodletting, an exsanguination, the reenactment of a real wound inflicted three years earlier.
The film is an autobiography of loss.
The film is a history of now.
There is no such thing as the past, Pasolini likes to say.
It constantly invades the present.
Danilo believes this is true.
He knows what happened in Salo isn't over.
He knows how easily it could return.
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