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Kobe Bryant's farewell would be meticulous – a near-nauseating tribute to one of the NBA's greats after he had spent the season touring the US with a stinking Lakers team, each final visit to a city framed within the Kobe's Long Goodbye narrative.
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In the middle of this goodbye to narrative, Evans included this list: "Imperative Needs: suspenders, drawers, collar pin, bath slippers, Crime and Punishment, rubber cement".
From the hundreds of thousands of Americans who go on missions to Africa and effectively try to overhaul culture in the name of love, to individuals like Joshua Harris who championed purity culture by shaming and oversimplifying relationships in his book I Kissed Dating Goodbye, this narrative isn't new.
Winner of the 2007 German Book Prize, her novel brings together the haunting folk echoes of Dinesen's "Winter's Tales," the visual immediacy of Isherwood's "Goodbye to Berlin," the narrative cohesion of Mann's "Buddenbrooks".
In 2000, when pop stars were unlikely to write songs about domestic violence, the Dixie Chicks scored a Top Twenty hit with "Goodbye Earl," a cheerfully ruthless narrative about two friends poisoning an abusive husband.
Later movies include Notre musique (2004; "Our Music"), a meditation on war, the experimental collage Film socialisme (2010; Socialism), and Adieu au langage (2014; Goodbye to Language), a fragmented narrative about a man, a woman, and a dog, filmed in 3-D.
If there was a single dominant narrative in Europe these past two weeks, it was one of goodbyes.
Even parts of the narrative that were exaggerated for the film -- like Maria's final goodbye with her parents -- resonated with Holocaust survivors who had similar experiences.
Goodbye, goodbye.
Goodbye, Rémi, goodbye, Marie.
Goodbye hinge, goodbye foot.
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