The difference between “funny” and “sad” then is not black and white but gray and gray. The narrator repeats “kind of” twice, which emphasizes that even these feelings barely register. Thinking about how the unfulfilling cycle will continue is too much to bear, and makes him want to drink until he forgets. The narrator wants to put his head down and pretend that there’s “no tomorrow”, since each day is the same as the last. Hide my head, I want to drown my sorrow,.“Filling up their glasses” could refer to either drinking glasses (i.e., each person is extremely sad, and goes through their life drinking bitterness) or eyeglasses (suggesting that the tears waver in their eyes but never fall past the frames). Since everyone is going through life on automatic, trying hard not to think or show how sad they are, everyone thinks everyone else is fine. ![]() And their tears are filling up their glasses,Īlthough everyone feels like the narrator, sad and unfulfilled, they hold it back so that their sadness doesn’t show.The imagery of a race sums up this unchanging existence, since many races occur on tracks which quite literally “go nowhere”. ![]()
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