Quaintly reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being in a real paper edition, so fo course can't easily copy the quotes into this blog - though I'm guessing that someone somewhere has quoted the passages that struck me hard as well. Let's Google and see.
"Now what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty had remained"
No one else has thought to quote it. It's a perfect summary of the feeling that remains when a loved one has gone away.
Oh and I was a bit unfair to Breaking Bad - in that the Ambiguous Last Redeeming Act was the only possible way of ending the series with any kind of closure. Not quite just the beauty remaining, but a sense that we had got away with it even if Walt hadn't.
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