Breaking Up: Hard to Do; Easy to Write About
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A funny overview of books for the recently single:
A brisk survey of the literature reveals at least one thing these books have to offer: metaphors. Apt, tortured, elegant, clunky—metaphors are apparently indispensable tools of the breakup guru’s trade. Going through a breakup, we learn, is like having a hangover, except when it’s like having broken ribs or a very bad cold. The trouble with you and your ex? You became “intertwined, like two saplings that are planted in the same pot.” Either that or you were like two race cars that “weren’t driving the same speed anymore, one of you was always trying to catch up, and eventually you crashed and totaled the cars.”
The curious popularity of guides for the brokenhearted.