Familiar to Us

"If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article."
- Willie Stargell

Novelists draw from such a large group of unlikable acquaintances that they never use just one in their writings. Instead, they combine the worst of each into a single character and call the monster, Antagonist. There's no wonder why such characters seem so real to us. Most are.


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