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[Alexandra]

I thought that, too, Nanatchka.  Chaos -- objectively speaking, when one isn't in the midst of it -- should be exciting.  Asteroids hurtling themselves through space, landing here there and beyond, explosions, fireworks, fun!  But then I thought, no, that's Chaos speaking through it's PR representative.  Real chaos is simply when the power fails on the hottest day in summer and you're in the subway -- no air, no light, no escalators -- or on the street -- no traffic lights, honking horns, cars making U-turns in the middle of a street or going onto the sidewalk because the cops are all on strike.

[Manhattnik]

Real chaos is simply when the power fails on the hottest day in summer and you're in the subway -- no air, no light, no escalators -- or on the street -- no traffic lights, honking horns, cars making U-turns in the middle of a street or going onto the sidewalk because the cops are all on strike.

C'mon, Alexandra. You can't blame all of that on Peter Martins. We all know it was all Lindsay's fault, anyway.

[Alexandra]

No, no, Manhattnik! I wasn't making an analogy (and I won't give Martins credit for inventing the U-turn; I'm sure that was Noverre   )  Just making the point that, in the abstract, chaos doesn't have to be exciting.