Night of the Happy Bodies
The New Yorker|July 10 - 17, 2023 (Double Issue)
I like parties where you sit around and talk to people. But I love parties where you dance and make noise with people. This may seem strange for a writer, but I can find spoken words overly complex and unwieldy, especially in the fast-moving currents of a party.
MARY GAITSKILL
Night of the Happy Bodies

Movement and sound are the natural language of a group, because they give instinctive access to the heart and to our primal need to connect with our own species whether in friendship or in animus.

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