Sunday 2 May 2010

Why we* watch Neighbours

When I rode the subways as a kid, I read books from the public library, I read big fat Les Misérables for weeks while I took the IRT to the doctor for my Wednesday allergy shots, I needed to know Jean Valjean lived a more miserable life than I did.
- EL Doctorow, 'Lives of the Poets' (in Lives of the Poets)

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