Watchmen and the scene of reading (being a response to Anthony Lane's review of Zack Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' novel)

Acephalous | by Scott Eric Kaufman | Fri, Mar 13

That is to say: Tales of the Black Freighter reflects for readers of Watchmen the process by which cultural artifacts acquire meaning in the larger world.  The message here is quite direct: escapist literature tells us something about the world readers want to escape.  To wit:

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