There is only one crowd scene in the book, incongruous, and jarring against the sense of isolation elsewhere. Goppel says: ‘This image as the only image of an “unrestricted” party seems out of place in the project. In fact, it was a scientific experiment to test the incidence of infection after the lockdown. You were only allowed in with a negative test result, and scientists with clipboards stood at the edge of the party’
