They hate, but they can’t deny the stats.”If you’re baffled by the customary games and unsettlingly creepy masks that fill the hall, then you’re right there on Earn’s wavelength. “It’s the only white game I know,” he pleads. It’s good advice: Since losing her job, Van has been floating through life the way Earn does, and we’ve all seen how that’s worked out for him. Her terms: “If I win, then you don’t have to see me unless it’s about Lotte or money.”Much like everything else in his life, Earn doesn’t put up much of a fight. • The biergarten crowd enthusiastically chants Earn’s name when he apparently wins that perplexing party game.

Source: New York Times March 23, 2018 03:00 UTC