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Author: Jonathan Lethem
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
Dylan's friend Linus Millberg appears out of the crowd with a cup of beer and shouts, 'Dorothy is John Lennon, the Scarecrow is Paul McCartney, the Tin Woodman is George Harrison, the Lion's Ringo.'',' commands Dylan over the lousy twangy country CB's is playing between sets.'Easy,' Linus shouts back. "Kirk's John, Spock's Paul, Bones is George, Scotty is Ringo. Or Chekov, after the first season. Doesn't matter, it's like a Scotty-Chekov-combination Ringo. Spare parts are always surplus Georges or Ringos.''But isn't Spock-lacks-a-heart and McCoy-lacks-a-brain like Woodman and Scarecrow? So Dorothy's Kirk?''You don't get it. That's just a superficial coincidence. The Beatle thing is an , it's like the basic human formation. Everything naturally forms into a Beatles, people can't help it.''Say the types again.''Responsible-parent genius-parent genius-child clown-child.''Okay, do Star Wars.''Luke , Han Solo , Chewbacca , the robots .''.''Uh, Johnny Carson , the guest , Ed McMahon , whatisname .''Doc Severinson.''Yeah, right. See, everything revolves around John, even Paul. That's why John's the guest.''And Severinson's quiet but talented, like a Wookie.''You begin to understand."
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Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn
Thing is, for me a woman has to have a certain amount of muffling, you know what I mean? Something between you, in the way of insulation. Otherwise, you're right up against her naked soul.
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Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn
He didn't hide his teeth, which were bright yellow, like the van we'd unloaded.
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Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn
The big Nazi cat went on raking up thread-loops from my trousers, seemingly intent on single-handedly reinventing Velcro.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Feral Detective
on the one hand there's mansplaining, and on the other, there's the sound of a woman quoting the mansplaining to another woman.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Feral Detective
Television had elected itself, I figured. It could watch itself too, for all I cared. I read my book.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Feral Detective
So I took my phone to a bakery and coffee shop called Some Crust and read Elena Ferrante at an outdoor table and hoped for some amusing college student to hit on me. I got hit on by amusing senior citizens instead. Perhaps they, like the Klan, had been lately emboldened.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Feral Detective
Like other names I censored lately, this was a vote against invoking monsters, against etching their reality into the air.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Ecstasy of Influence:
The Hippie Parents weren't for all their distraction and funk, for their love triangles and LPs and antiwar demonstrations, illiterates...You'd find the books in the downstairs bathroom, or on their bedside tables, or maybe see them unwrapped at holidays as gifts, a cherished revelation passed from one to another, shared like a joint...
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Jonathan Lethem _ Dissident Gardens
Let him get stoned, since everybody must.
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Jonathan Lethem _ A Gambler's Anatomy: A Novel
Cocaine Suppe Mit Tittenschnakken,
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Laughing at "Rapper's Delight"'s no revenge, and anyway it wasn't your idea, and anyway it's . Dean Street's another story, a realm of knowledge unapplicable here.You've just about finished leaving Dean Street, and Aeroman, behind.If this means avoiding the one who protected your ass all through junior high, the one you once ached to emulate, the one whose orbit you were happy just to swing in - if it means leaving the million-dollar kid's regular phone messages in Abraham's precise handwriting unreturned - that's a small price to pay for growing up, isn't it
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