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La Mancha Screwjob

All the world’s a stage. So we push through the fourth wall, pierce the spandex-ed heart of professional wrestling, and travel 400 years into the past to unmask our obsession with authenticity and our desire to walk the line between reality and fantasy.



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Tags: authenticity, bret-the-hitman-hart, don-quixote, fiction, line-between-reality-and-fiction, modernity, reality-television, wrestling

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