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One more date we would’ve had a Greek tragedy on our hands.
— Jeffrey Anderson ‧ Soapdish
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker suggests a relationship was heading for catastrophe on the scale of classical drama, and that one more date would have tipped it over. The exaggeration is wry: mismatched people are cast as doomed tragic figures, and stopping in time is presented as a narrow escape.
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