did you mistake compulsion for freedom?

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Well, not quite to Seoul yet. I’m on a flight to Seattle first, eating apple chips (which I never eat in real life) and sipping icy ginger ale — which I love, and always tastes better on a flight. High over the ocean between Washington State and South Korea, I munch the evil air travel trifecta of pistachios, Starburst and Cheez—Its. There’s no wifi on the flight, so I binge Season 3 of True Detective. I’m transfixed. Watching a show partially set in the time just before mobile phones, while I have no access to what

Mo_Diggs

calls the URL world, I give myself over to a sky-high inertia of in-between. I’m in the middle of a 22-hour day of travel. The mineral aroma of salt seeps through my mask. My candy tastes like old cavities.

The writing in Season 3! Did you confuse reacting with feeling? Did you mistake compulsion for freedom? And even so, did you harden your heart against what loved you most? Oh sweetheart, did you think you could just go on and never once have to look back? Carmen Ejogo is both alarmingly broken and deeply free in the show. I want to hang out with her Amelia. I need to hear her oddly measured voice tell me more about happened when she ran away to California from the American South of the 1970s.

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