The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure – and so often, people are unsure – is that breaking up involves persuasion.
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When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow.
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The problem with breaking up with someone, if you are a little unsure – and so often, people are unsure – is that breaking up involves persuasion.
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Krzhizhanovsky wanted to perform imaginary experiments with the nature of time and space.
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It would be impolite not to have sex.
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When a clandestine couple kisses, it is much more likely that sex will immediately follow.
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And this is difficult if you have not entirely persuaded yourself. It is especially tricky to do this if you are also naked, and making two cups of coffee.
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In response, Krzhizhanovsky’s prose has a recklessly unstable tone in which delighted examination of impossible worlds can slip into ferocious political sarcasm.
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It is a method for investigating how much unreality reality can bear.
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Once you have kissed secretly, it is very difficult not to have sex.
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You have to persuade your ex that it is better this way for everyone.
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This is because there is much more risk.
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Outside, in the streets, the Communist state was busy performing such experiments for real.
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