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The TV (by E. L. Doctorow) / Fiction
One day the man wakes up and finds that he does not feel like going to work. He is not sick, exactly; he just doesn’t feel like going to work. He calls the office and makes an excuse, then he pours himself a bowl of cereal and sits down in front of the television.
The man doesn’t usually have time to watch television, so it takes him a while to find a show he’s interested in, but when he eventually does find one he sits rapt, his cereal forgotten, for a very, very, very long time. The show seems to last much longer than a normal show. In fact, it lasts all day. It is five o’clock before the main character finally leaves his job and heads home, prompting the credits to roll.
The man sets his bowl of cereal aside and stares at the floor for a while.
My God, he thinks.
He gets up, goes into the bathroom, and takes a shower. As he washes, he thinks about the show he has just seen. He is shampooing his hair when suddenly he realizes: the show was about him. Not kind of about him, not metaphorically...
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