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Hortense 2021-12-18 08:01:12

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Stefan: This generation of young people makes me creepy. The country has offered them to study for so many years, and then overnight, they became smarter, went to the United States, went to study in London, and after working, they forgot all the support of the state. No one gives back to society at all. When I was young, it was the opposite, working hard in the art department.
Jep: You? Give back to society?
Stefan: What's wrong, you are not convinced?
Jep: Haha, stop making trouble.
Stefan: In those few years, you spent a lot of time in Naples, writing your "little novel".
Jep: Ah, why didn't I pay attention.
Romano: Short novel? That is a masterpiece of Italian literature!
QN: I can prove that Jep is really not suitable for giving back to the society. He is so lazy and others are like ADHD compared to him.
Stefan: Romano, stop sucking up your idol. His book is narrow-minded, trivial, and pretending to be compelling. Jep knew better than anyone else. So he stopped writing.
Romano: Excuse me, how about you?
Stefan: I tried to use literature to change some things. I wrote eleven novels and an official party history.
Jep: You also forgot that TV entertainment program you made, called "Girl Countryside", haha.
Stefan: TV can be a very novel method! They invited me and I went. In order to try new things, I am not afraid of dirty hands. I don't want to waste my life on making a snob.
Dadina: So you are saying that writers who focus on social activities are naturally better than writers who are more sophisticated about human emotions?
Jep: That's what she meant.
Stefan: The goal of a person's life is the top priority of life, for example, starting a family, sacrificing oneself for this family, day by day. Eusebio and I have four children. We have plans for the future. As a mother, a woman, I work hard, but in the end, I do feel that I have done something meaningful.
Dadina: So if we don't have children, should we all commit suicide?
Stefan: I'm not talking about you.
Jep: She was talking about me.
Stefan: Dadina, I admire you very much. You are cool.
Jep: Did you use the word "cool" in your 11 novels.
Stefan: Yes, I want to keep up with the trend, it is cool to keep up with the trend.
Jep: Haha, it's really turnip greens. Your faith is really firm, do you say I should admire you or despise you.
Stefan: I am a very determined person. I am 53 years old.
Jep: It can't be seen.
Stefan: I am 53 years old. I have gone through hardships and stood up again. I have learned a lot in my life. I think you have nothing to say.
Jep: I'm just drinking. We actually care about you and don't want to embarrass you. Do you know, these bragging, these serious show-offs, these "I ah I ah my ah", these caustic assumptions, in fact conceal this kind of fragility and falsehood, a kind of powerlessness, but we still care about you, we Knowing you, we also know our own falsity, but we are not like you, we end up talking nonsense, trivial things, because we don't want to make fun of our own parents.
Stefan: What are you talking about falsely? I'm telling the truth, and I believe what I'm saying.
Jep: Hey, I'm an educated gentleman, don't force me.
Stefan: I want you to tell me what is false and fragile? ! I am a kind woman, you say.
Jep: Haha "a kind woman", can't help it, okay Stefan, you want me to say it yourself. I just said one by one casually: No one knows and pays attention to the feedback you gave to society in college. However, many of us remembered the meaningful social feedback of helping the school clean the toilet at that time. You write that party history, because you have been the mistress of that party leader for many years. Those 11 novels of yours were printed by a small publishing house that no one knew, or were they subsidized by the party. Only some tabloids related to that party comment on your novels. In fact, no one reads them at all. Everyone says that anyway. This is not to say that my book is better than yours. I agree with what you say. The relationship between you and Eusebio, um, what kind of relationship, Eusebio does not love you, it is Giordano, everyone knows, for many years, they have lunch together at Arnold's on the Pantheon every day, like whispering under a tree Couple. You know it yourself, but you just open one eye and close the other. Ah, the sacrifice you made for your child, well, you work on TV all day, and you keep coming out to hang out with us at night. You have never been with your child, not even during your long vacation. Then, look at the housekeepers, chefs, drivers who accompany your children to school, and three babysitters. So, when and how did you embody your so-called "sacrifice"?
These are what I call false and fragile. Stefan, a mother and woman, you are 53 years old, life is hopeless, just like us. However, instead of showing your superiority and contempt when you look at us, it is better to treat us with sympathetic love. We are all people on the verge of despair, and there is only as much we can do. Look at me, I look at you, hug each other, be a company, and find each other's happiness, don't you think?

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