Scenes from a Broken Hand

Scenes from a Broken Hand

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No Real Persons Involved

Resisting a world filled with non-player characters

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Andrew Ordover
Oct 07, 2023
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In the HBO show, Succession, a corporate CEO tries to console his son after a terrible accident has taken the life of a young caterer, using language that the son has recently found in old memos excusing bad behavior of years gone by. NRPI is the acronym used in the old memos: No Real Person Involved. Never mind that in the course of business, young wom…

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