Soap-opera

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soap-opera

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Votey

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Ugh. I can't watch soap operas. Too realistic.

I prefer nabokov. Or hemingway. Give me proust or dostoevsky/ stories where things either really really matter or else don't matter in a way that's dark and romantic.

Oh.)

In soap operas there's a constant sense of looming catastrophe, but almost nothing ever happens. Characters come and go senselessly. There is no final closure. It's like a bad song on repeat, only with just enough variation to convince you to continue on.

Way too close to real life.

Later.

This is so uplifting!

The Collected Miseries of Franz Kafka

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