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> It never occurred to me that any book would be about someone like me I don't know quite how you feel about it but you could easily consider this a personal t
by giraffe_lady 2y ago
> It never occurred to me that any book would be about someone like me
I don't know quite how you feel about it but you could easily consider this a personal tragedy and rejoice that a new generation doesn't have to experience it. Never reading a book about people like you doesn't make you strong or wise, and no one is weak for wanting to see themselves in one either.
- scandox 2y agoWell I'm not assigning any moral value to either situation. I'm maybe more just commenting on my own obsolescence.
- edgarvaldes 2y ago>you could easily consider this a personal tragedy How so?
- philwelch 2y agoIf my life was interesting enough to write a book about, it would entail a lot more conflict and suffering than I would actually want in my life. That’s sort of a limiting factor. If someone wrote a book about my life, most of it would be extremely boring and the rest would cover parts of my life that I would rather not spend too much time dwelling on.
- bigstrat2003 2y ago> Never reading a book about people like you doesn't make you strong or wise, and no one is weak for wanting to see themselves in one either. On the contrary. If one cannot appreciate a work of art unless it reflects them on the surface, that is a character flaw. We must discourage such things, not give into it as the current establishment does.