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What you can gain by “accident”

Let’s call this Holden Caulfield Modernism. Since The Catcher in the Rye we’ve been able to use vague teen-speak in voice to create character. Details get to be “way too big” or “tons” or “I can’t even” as a callow pass. This allows us to move onto the meat of the scene, what happens and the result of what happens. But…