plot

Trying on "conservative" outfits.

I want to tell you more, I want to go on & on, I want to hear more & more
from you. Yes, that sounded very "dramatic," what you did. Those things
never work how we want or imagine. Which is not to say they necessarily
backfire. But we so often sniff out others' intent, subvert it. It's odd
because we love plot. I mean, who doesn't?

~Gary Sullivan, Swoon, p. 34