But tying together the toilet humor with the traumatic experience and its aftermath feels undermining of both. It may be true that reading the graffiti in public restrooms helped her deal with her trauma, as she claims – that the scrawling on bathroom walls was more concretely useful to her, as she says specifically, than contemplating classical art by Monet or Botticelli. I was eating too much, and throwing it up.” It’s like that old saying-it’s better to face your fears than fear your face.”īut this is confusing, not least because she tells us that, as a result of taking the advice from the graffiti, she became “pretty self-destructive… drinking too much. She turns this into a kind of philosophy, or at least a platitude: “I think it’s always worth it to do things that scare you, to put yourself outside of your comfort zone. She also ties it into the rest of the show by saying that, at the time, she noticed a piece of graffiti in a bathroom that said: “Do what scares you (even if it’s everything).” She tells us this comforted her: “I built my life around this piece of graffiti… I took that advice, I mean I really took that advice. This is an abrupt change in tone – in no way funny, although she does try to make a few jokes about it.
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