Tragic mundanity

“Any idiot can face a crisis,” Russian playwright Anton Chekhov wrote in one of his cheerier moods. “It’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.” Actually, the quote may belong to another dour playwright, Clifford Odets, but that hardly matters here. I can’t think of a line that better sums up the major theme of […]
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