Returning inside, Chris wondered aloud to Amanda, who crouched twiddling the knobs of a television with a bulbous green screen, what Susan had thought of him, in the old days: it seemed to matter suddenly.
But when the specific case of Bogdan Chazan, a gynaecologist, who obeyed his conscience and didn't respect the patient's rights, was described by a journalist in Wprost, a weekly, the matter suddenly became the talk of Warsaw.
Not just because of the bloodshed — all that brain matter suddenly appearing on the outsides of people's skulls, instead of working quietly within, where it belongs — but because of the equal violence done to narrative form.
Day wasn't in the shop during the altercation, but it scarcely mattered: suddenly, he was famous, besieged by reporters and fans curious about the incident — and curious, too, about a clothing store that welcomes prizefighters at four-thirty in the morning.
Meanwhile, Dan Scavino, an assistant to the President, celebrated that #Roseanne was the top trending subject of the evening, tweeting, "So awesome!!!" Watching the show or not watching it, or liking it or not, seemed a matter, suddenly, like everything else, of taking sides.
Day wasn't in the shop during the altercation, but it scarcely mattered: suddenly, he was famous, besieged by reporters and fans curious about the incident and curious, too, about a clothing store that welcomes prizefighters at four-thirty in the morning.
People that weren't even interested in rugby, or sport for that matter, suddenly switched on their TV screens to watch this man mountain.
And the small town of Sevnica, which wasn't well known internationally (or in Slovenia for that matter), suddenly became the country's unofficial capital.
And the small town of Sevnica, which wasn't well known internationally (or even in Slovenia for that matter), suddenly became the country's unofficial capital.
