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Nicholson Baker - The Mezzanine (1988)

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Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

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In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

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A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

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There is no good word for stomach; just as there is no good word for girlfriend. Stomach is to girlfriend as belly is to lover, and as abdomen is to consort, and as middle is to petite amie.

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Staplers have followed, lagging by about ten years, the broad stylistic changes we have witnessed in train locomotives and phonograph tonearms, both of which they resemble.

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow tentacular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.

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Born: January 7, 1957 (age 68)
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