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==Comparison==
===Opening Lines===
The title of the first canto of the original, "The Burial of the Series," alludes not only to ''Daria'' out-of-production status as of 2005, but also to the Daria-Jane-Tom triangle, which some viewers felt was the creative nadir of the series when it was in production. Samsa develops this resonant play on the senses of creative death ''qua'' a failure of imagination versus creative death ''qua'' the exigencies of creative work under capitalism within the first five lines of the original.
The title of Eliot's first canto, "The Burial of the Death," is merely lugubrious, and the first lines do nothing to dispell this impression. This cheap groping for after the grotesque brings to mind what Daria herself said to Kevin in episode 104, "Hamlet has a skull in it."
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