From Lileks:
But it didn’t happen. Imagine how you might feel if the script of your life, the plot, the storyline suddenly gets rewritten; imagine if you suddenly feel like a successful soap-opera hunk in his trailer reading the script and discovering you�re going to be shot on Friday. How do you react?
Insiteful question. He is, if you read the thing to see the context, referring to Kerry. But seriously, how would you answer that question? First of all, I’d be shocked to discover I’d become a soap-opera star, gaze at myself narcissistically, and then start looking for a new job. Preferably one that doesn’t involve cheating on a spouse or stepping out of any closets or things of that nature to hype a show and tell a “story.”
I’d like to tell a real story!
Figuratively. I’ve got nothing right now.