Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn (1999)

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Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

Jonathan Lethem

A shadow strolled past the car, indifferent to our curbside melodrama. This was my second time imperiled in a a parked vehicle in the space of three hours. I wondered what goonish spectacles I'd overlooked in my own career as a pavement walker.

Jonathan Lethem

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

Jonathan Lethem

Tourette's is just one big lifetime of tag, really. The world (or my brain — same thing) appoints me it, again and again. So I tag back. Can it do otherwise? If you've ever been it you know the answer.

Jonathan Lethem

Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

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