Post by HoneyRose on Jul 27, 2019 19:56:46 GMT -5
I read the following in a short story, and thought my sister soap-watchers might find it interesting.
"A soap opera is something you live with every day. What keeps you watching isn't, as with movies and novels, the assurance that a hostage taken at the beginning will be a hostage freed at the end.
Instead, stories verge into one another. New plots rise from the ashes of old ones. Suffering is a principle: too much happiness foretells imminent catastrophe, just as minor fatigue bodes terminal illness.
Time is elastic. Generally speaking, it conforms to time in the world-- Christmas comes for them when it comes for us. Only sometimes time compresses and a single afternoon will take weeks to unfold.
And sometimes time accelerates perversely so that a boy graduates from high school eight years after his birth. And sometimes time seems not to exist at all." --David Leavitt "Speonk"
"A soap opera is something you live with every day. What keeps you watching isn't, as with movies and novels, the assurance that a hostage taken at the beginning will be a hostage freed at the end.
Instead, stories verge into one another. New plots rise from the ashes of old ones. Suffering is a principle: too much happiness foretells imminent catastrophe, just as minor fatigue bodes terminal illness.
Time is elastic. Generally speaking, it conforms to time in the world-- Christmas comes for them when it comes for us. Only sometimes time compresses and a single afternoon will take weeks to unfold.
And sometimes time accelerates perversely so that a boy graduates from high school eight years after his birth. And sometimes time seems not to exist at all." --David Leavitt "Speonk"
