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Unlike profiling serial killers, writing is a lonely and depressing profession.
— Jose Chung ‧ Millennium
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker describes writing as lonely and depressing, then sets it against profiling serial killers. The unexpected comparison supplies the dark humour: an activity with such grim subject matter is offered as the contrast to writing's isolation and unhappiness.
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