2/ also, re "...every American over 30 has a story about coming home... unrecognizable" this is not a story about American commercialism or zoning or whatever...this is a story about human nature >>>
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@dsawyer gave a great talk at@based_con on male vs female bildungsroman, and noted that they were somewhat similar, and somewhat different the male variety, IIRC, is that the man goes out to fight and grow, then comes home and realizes that home has changedShow this thread -
4/ See this at the end of LOTR: the hobbits (youthful characters even if not actually young) come home and the Shire isn't the same - and not just bc Sharky has taken over, but because once you've seen Paris, how you gonna keep em down on the farm?
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