Day 1,382: protagonist

The protagonist of “Perfect Days”, a new film by Wim Wenders, a German director, is a Japanese sanitary worker.

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Artwork of the day 
The Draughts Players
Gustave Courbet
Date: 1844
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Private Collection

Word of the day 
protagonist: one of the main characters in a story or a play

Quote of the day
“You're both the fire and the water that extinguishes it. You're the narrator, the protagonist, and the sidekick. You're the storyteller and the story told. You are somebody's something, but you are also your you.”

― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down