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Question #23
In his book Sex, Drugs, and Coco Puffs, Chuck Klosterman has twenty-three questions he asks “everybody I meet in order to decide if I can really love them.”
Some of the questions are very funny, some are very dumb. I like them all and want to know your answer; mine are in the comments section. So here they are, one at time (in reverse order).
23. Consider this possibility:
a. Think about deceased TV star John Ritter.
b. Now, pretend Ritter had never become famous. Pretend he was never affected by the trappings of fame, and try to imagine what his personality would have been like.
c. Now, imagine that this person—the unfamous John Ritter—is a character in a situation comedy.
d. Now, you are also a character in this sitcom, and the unfamous John Ritter character is your sitcom father.
e. However, this sitcom is actually your real life. In other words, you are living inside a sitcom: Everything about our life is a construction, featuring the unfamous John Ritter playing himself (in the role of your TV father). But this is not a sitcom. This is your real life.
How would you feel about this?
