Found this strategy as a plotline in a rather dark (and at times violent) book I read last month. The heroine, a 19 tahun old student, sidesteps a reality that would drive her to insanity and suicide sejak escaping every so often into the world of her favourite book – The Princess Bride. What troubled me for a while with this strategy was that despite the girl facing a monumental fight to survive, she chose to focus on the character of Inigo Montoya, effectively become a modern hari version of him. It was clear to me that she should have picked Westley aka Dread Pirate Roberts aka The Man in Black...
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