Chapter 1: "Hell is other demons"
This was just a paraphrase of the line "hell is other people" from "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre, because the lack of institutionalized punishment in this setting in hell always fascinated me, the denizens of hell are jerks because everyone is a jerk.
This was just a paraphrase of the line "hell is other people" from "No Exit" by Jean-Paul Sartre, because the lack of institutionalized punishment in this setting in hell always fascinated me, the denizens of hell are jerks because everyone is a jerk.
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This is the only one that's a reference to the story itself. Dilla talked about moving on and settling into a new normal. This chapter jumps ahead to the comfortable status quo Dilla and Arty found 15 years later, and it's not... great, then we fill in context later.
Because this chapter is jumping back, and alternating between bits of Arty and Dilla's story, I named it after the Japanese art of restoring pottery with precious metals. Putting together the scattered messy pieces of their lives, and I think it will be beautiful in the end.
"Angels rush in" aside from being the obvious second half of this stories title, it may point to a general mindset angels in this setting have been proven to have.