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  1. 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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  2. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    He didn't hide his teeth, which were bright yellow, like the van we'd unloaded.
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  3. 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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  4. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a verb-less sentence.
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  5. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    We were all four of us an arrangement around a missing centrepiece, as incoherent as a been less sentence.
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  6. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    Guilt wants to cover all the bases, be everywhere at once, reach into the past to tweak, neaten and repair. Guilt like Tourettic utterance flows uselessly, inelegantly from one helpless human to another, contemptuous of perimeters, doomed to be mistaken or refused on delivery.
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  7. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    …Carlotta hovered over us as we devoured her meatballs, running her floury fingers over the backs of our chairs, then gently touching our heads, the napes of our necks. We pretended not to notice, ashamed in front of one another and ourselves to show that we drank in her nurturance as eagerly as her meat sauce.
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  8. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
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  9. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    Once I had it free, I gobbled the sandwich like a nature-film otter cracking an oyster on its stomach: knees up in the wiring under the dashboard, my elbows jammed against the steering wheel, my chest serving as a table, my shirt as a tablecloth.
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  10. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    I'm always serious. That's the tragedy of my life.
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  11. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict. And he was too moronic to be properly self-loathing--so it was my duty to loathe him instead.
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  12. Jonathan Lethem _ Motherless Brooklyn

    How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
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