On tragedy, comedy, and the substance of life

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with reference to Frasier and Ariadne auf Naxos

[Authors’ Note: We wrote these essays on tragedy and comedy largely independently, but we offer them to our readers together.] Tara: I spent a lot of time last December watching Frasier. I had a mild but irritating case of Omicron – diagnosed right before the recommended ten days of quarantine condensed into five – isolating away from Dhananjay in a studio apartment so stiflingly small that my occasional trips to take down garbage began to feel like bucolic refuge, despite (or perhaps because of) the ubiquity of rats, which were, at least, living beings. I'd seen the show before, of course;…

On tragedy, comedy, and the substance of life

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