Are you sure Death in Venice is terrible? It sounds kind of interesting. :P
Anyway, the last bit put me in the mind of the time I dated a fan of my writing. (Which I knew to be a terrible idea, but I did not give any fucks about anything at the time.) There was this weird point where I realized that she was interpreting everything I was saying as if I were one of the characters I'd written. And the thing that made it more tricky was that it was about more or less correct 80% of the time, since I'd stuffed a lot of my own psychodrama into that character. But that last 20% made a world of difference, and she'd never bridge that gap because her idea of me as that character was so potent in her mind.
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Date: 2017-10-20 01:00 am (UTC)Anyway, the last bit put me in the mind of the time I dated a fan of my writing. (Which I knew to be a terrible idea, but I did not give any fucks about anything at the time.) There was this weird point where I realized that she was interpreting everything I was saying as if I were one of the characters I'd written. And the thing that made it more tricky was that it was about more or less correct 80% of the time, since I'd stuffed a lot of my own psychodrama into that character. But that last 20% made a world of difference, and she'd never bridge that gap because her idea of me as that character was so potent in her mind.