A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #83 Oxbridge in My Dreams
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Weight: A scale is a scale Mood: Good I’ve been deep into bittersweet romances (The Last Letter From Your Lover, Always, In December, and The Ottoman Lieutenant [a boring film with the chemistry of cardboard]) as of late. And as I sniffled my way through, I started to get very angry. I am so tired of books (and tv and movies), regardless of genre, where there must always be the death of a thing or a complication of a thing to the protagonist to make the book “good.” No one, it seems, is allowed to want, and get something and just be happy. Of course, there would be conflict somewhere because you do need the literary tension, but why is it so set in stone that the want and ownership of something means you must suffer to get it or to give up something to have it? There is always a choice to be mad and characters tend to do what is good for all and not what is good for them.
A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #83 Oxbridge in My Dreams
A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #83 Oxbridge…
A Most Unreliable Narrator Issue #83 Oxbridge in My Dreams
Weight: A scale is a scale Mood: Good I’ve been deep into bittersweet romances (The Last Letter From Your Lover, Always, In December, and The Ottoman Lieutenant [a boring film with the chemistry of cardboard]) as of late. And as I sniffled my way through, I started to get very angry. I am so tired of books (and tv and movies), regardless of genre, where there must always be the death of a thing or a complication of a thing to the protagonist to make the book “good.” No one, it seems, is allowed to want, and get something and just be happy. Of course, there would be conflict somewhere because you do need the literary tension, but why is it so set in stone that the want and ownership of something means you must suffer to get it or to give up something to have it? There is always a choice to be mad and characters tend to do what is good for all and not what is good for them.