The other day in class someone mentioned asperger's syndrome, when we were discussing some of Beckett's characters. I was reminded of a lowbrow show I enjoy watching called, Curb You Enthusiasm. The show centers on Larry David, Seinfeld co-creator, and his horribly socially awkward life as a celebrity in living in L.A. The show is basically life as fiction in that it is loosely based on his real life experiences in a free form unscripted show. Dr. Sexon's story about his airplane ride reminded me of an episode in which Larry determines he can't fire a chef he recently hired, who he just learned has turrets syndrome and will curse at random, because noticed he has numbers on his arm, which Larry believes to be a mark of a Holocaust survivor. These plots make the simple so complex, and everything always comes full circle. Anyway Larry is talking to the chef one day about the lottery, and he finds out the chef was one number away from winning the jackpot, and after divulging this news to Larry he licks his fingers and wipes of the numbers on his arm. Larry obviously, astonished, must have felt similar to Dr. Sexson, he felt deceived, but it was his own thoughts that put the importance on the numbers on the arm, he created his own fiction in life, interesting connection, the more I think about it this show has a lot to do with this class. I recommend checking it out for lowbrow versions of class themes, such as Life as Fiction, Eternal Return, and others possibly.
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