Thirty-Sixth Book
Motherless Brooklyn : Jonathan Lethem
Vintage : 2000
Donated by
Liz WoodburyStarted 6.5.05
Finished 6.13.05
The Line: "His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts -- his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world, his attention like a pinball rolling past unlit blinkers and frozen flipppers into the hole again and again:
game over" (121-22).
Reminds me of soft
facts, language undecked, the way
skin gleams through fire.