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25 октября 2019 г., 19:00
It won’t do, then, for the... «A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments»
It won’t do, then, for the literary establishment simply to complain that, for instance, young-written characters don’t have very interesting dialogues with each other, that young writers’ ears seem “tinny.” Tinny they may be, but the truth is that, in younger Americans’ experience, people in the same room don’t do all that much direct conversing with each other. What most of the people I know do is they all sit and face the same direction and stare at the same thing and then structure commercial-length conversations around the sorts of questions that myopic car-crash witnesses might ask each other - “Did you just see what I just saw?”
