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Vizzini was waiting for him.
Indeed, he had set out a little picnic spread. From the knapsack that he always carried, he had taken a small handkerchief and on it he had placed two wine goblets. In the center was a small leather wine holder and, beside it, some cheese and some apples. The spot could not have been lovelier: a high point of the mountain path with...

Found this strategy as a plotline in a rather dark (and at times violent) book I read last month. The heroine, a 19 год old student, sidesteps a reality that would drive her to insanity and suicide by escaping every so often into the world of her favourite book – The Princess Bride. What troubled me for a while with this strategy was that despite the girl facing a monumental fight to survive, she chose to focus on the character of Inigo Montoya, effectively become a modern день version of him. It was clear to me that she should have picked Westley aka Dread Pirate Roberts aka The Man in Black...