Take a short story you like. Add all the meaningless detail the author omitted as irrelevant, like going to the bathroom or doing dishes. Add all the waiting/repetition montaged away as extra white space. Now delete original story. What’s left is what escapism escapes from.
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“Life” is way fuller of meaningless tedious detail and waiting than we are conscious of. It’s like that one graph in that Kurt Vonnegut essay.
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You know how in physics you learn at some point that “solid” matter is mostly empty space unless you’re talking neutron stars? Subjective time is mostly empty meaningless time. The meaningful bits of the stream of consciousness are very sparse.
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Memories compress all this away. You don’t remember the empty time. Unless it’s charged with emotion in which case it’s not really empty.
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