Episode 166: Total Recall (Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is Meryl Streep a Soap Opera Character?
I disagree with that. I think they are complex characters, but they're not acting as real people in a way. They're expressing something complex about human beings in a way that isn't naturalistic. Meryl Streep, I can't picture her playing absurdity. And David Lynch teeters on absurdity in the Good Way and the Kafka escape absurdity way.
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