The Understudy by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2019-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

I enjoyed making up my ‘dying father’ story. The strange thing is, so much of it’s true. Almost all of it, apart from the dying father part. What do details matter, though? Emotional truth is far more important than boring old facts. Can I make myself cry in five seconds by thinking about losing someone I love? Yes. I don’t need a terminally ill father in order to imagine how it would feel to have one. I know all about loss, and, when you boil it down—that’s what an audience wants: the bare-bones, elemental experience. The archetypal suffering. If they get that accompanied by a description of a yellow-painted room in a hospice that doesn’t exist, who cares? I haven’t even told anyone the room is yellow yet. Maybe I never will. Still, it’s important to know all the details of your story, even the ones you might never need to tell. You’ve got to have it all straight in your head. The details matter. And the facts matter, of course, but one fact matters far more than all the others: No one understands the agony of loss until they’ve experienced it for themselves. And that’s what I’m here to help with. I’ll make the most oblivious among them understand, before too long.

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