Deformed Man’s Lavatory
Author’s note: This story was accidentally posted to the fiction category. It is not fiction.
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I catch the 2012 Les Miserables film at Cinema Magic in Wuhan China, where I’m working as an English teacher. My viewing party is made up of my friends Sally, Vivi, Joe, and Quinn. On the way into the theatre, Joe remarks that we’re about have the most international film experience imaginable: We’re going to see an American film of a British adaptation of a French musical about a French book, and we’re going to see it in China. Furthermore, with Sally and Vivi being Chinese, Joe being British, and Quinn and myself being American, we’re seeing this film as a group of friends from three different continents. Joe talks about the whole thing like the sheer worldliness of all of it may usher in a new era of global peace.