Alexander Chee - The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurab...

Alexander Chee Zitate

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people - and also so pleasurable - make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There's a chaos agent quality to them: You just don't know who's going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who's become an enemy.

Alexander Chee

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Die Qualitäten, die Partys zu einem Alptraum für Menschen machen - und auch so angenehm machen -, machen sie innerhalb der Fiktion unglaublich wichtig. Sie haben eine Chaos-Agent-Qualität: Sie wissen einfach nicht, wer oder warum dabei sein wird. Sie könnten einem alten Feind begegnen, einem alten Freund, einem alten Freund, der zum Feind geworden ist.

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