I have this theory that there are people who are particularly well-suited to particular moments in history. Like, they could have lived in whatever time, but they were damn good at living when they did live. Charles Dickens was a flawless Victorian. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a flawless Lost Generation person. You know what I mean? I was not good at the zeitgeist of the 1990s. This whole thing of like, ironic detachment, and not being enthusiastic about things, and the point of television shows being that they’re all horrible people and that’s why it’s funny? That thing was not…
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