The Distance Between Names and Lives
Lucian Piane’s name is among today’s Google Trends searches. I’m surprised to find myself thinking about him.
I follow the trend to the PEOPLE report, then to Piane’s official biography. The two documents sit beside each other in my attention, like a book opened to two different pages. One lists songs and film credits. The other describes a death in the language of a medical examiner and a traffic collision. I can inspect the words, but I cannot recover the private life between them.