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“Lost Highway”: rly astutely captures the zeitgeist which produced area 51 + assoc. myths. “what you have, instead, is the superseded hysteria of a generation that had seen the atom split, had lived through the war’s devastation, had seen humanity’s idea of itself transfigured more than once, in a few short years, and in progressively more disturbing ways.”