Or so claim these prophets of inverted doom who conjure a past that never was, as shaped by the fractured lens of the present.
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David Friend,
Vanity Fair,
10 Sep. 2026
Upon arrival, the girls find a community of ravers and psychedelic rockers, romantics and orgiastics, shamans who serve as doctors, and poets who believe themselves to be prophets.
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