Anatomy of a Scene + Konfessional Korner Swirl: Khloe's Room
Written during a forlorn, full-moon 4am mood. Guess this what happens when you journal about your feelings through the lens of a reality show!
I don’t covet all that the Kardashians have. But it’s true that a large part of their show includes the depiction of non-material experiences somehow made even better because of what money can buy.
In the season finale of The Kardashians, Khloe is betrayed by Tristan for the umpteeth time
(my Vogue editor replaced the word “countless” with “umpteenth” on one of my recap drafts a few weeks ago and I fully agreed with the change. Ever since, I’ve had such enthusiasm for that word, umpteenth, and can’t stop stop using it)
and Khloe really does seem pretty emptied by the situation. When she said this:
I found myself thinking of one of my favorite F. Scott Fitzgerald quotes, which goes:
A man does not recover from such jolts—he becomes a different person, and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.