The Hill News

When I heard of Steve Jobs’s death, the thought came to my mind of John Lennon’s death; the circumstances were different but the times â€" Lennon died Dec. 8, 1980 â€" remarkably the same. And both found symbolism in the apple. Drudge had a picture of Steve Jobs from the beginning, dressed in a business suit, holding an apple. Actually, offering us an apple. The apple appeared as well in Virginia Postrel’s remembrance of Jobs in Bloomberg, illustrated by Leif Parson’s rendition of the iconic Magritte painting of the Englishman in bowler hat with an apple obscuring his face. But the apple is sky blue, like the company’s logo, and the sky gray, in mourning.

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