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Book: The Fortress of Solitude
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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 _ The Fortress of Solitude
It was entirely possible that one song could destroy your life. Yes, musical doom could fall on a lone human form and crush it like a bug. The song, that song, was sent from somewhere else to find you, to pick the scab of your whole existence. The song was your personal shitty fate, manifest as a throb of pop floating out of radios everywhere.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
Anonymous, where among the hard-bitten, laid-off-lathe-operator
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
I turned myself into a vinyl hawk, scouring record shops for out-of-print LPs, studying them with Talmudic intensity. The music I loved would all be dug out of studio archives and put onto CD within a few years, but then it was still scratchy and moldy and entirely my own.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
Zelmo was nearly bellowing by the time he raised his glass to the tables center. 'To the human heart!' Diners at other tables glanced to see what was the matter.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
His recording career spans just a decade: Rude was silenced by drug abuse and domestic tragedy at the end of the '70s.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
Go buy milk,' Robert said at last.Dylan moved for Buggy's door.But if ou come around here with that old lady's money next time I might have to take it off you.'Dylan recognized this as a sort of philosophical using. He was grateful for the implied sense of pooled information. He and Robert could move forward together from this point into whatever was required.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
The alphabet Miss Poobner taught was represented on the wall above her head by a series of personified cartoonlike letters--Mr. A, Eating an Apple; Mrs. B, Buying a Broom; and so on--and something insipid about the parade of grinning letters defeated Dylan's will utterly.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
A superhero spliced criminals from victims. In Gowanus things tended to be more mixed up.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
I'd never pondered the bourgeois implications of an earplug.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.
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Jonathan Lethem _ The Fortress of Solitude
Mingus Rude, Arthur Lomb, Gabriel Stern and Tim Vandertooth, even Aaron K. Doily: Dylan never met anyone who wasn't about to change immediately into someone else. His was a special talent for encountering persons about to shed one identity or disguise for another. He took it in stride by now.
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