The Tetherballs of Bougainville: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) by Leyner Mark

Author:Leyner, Mark [Leyner, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780307766038
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-17T00:00:00+00:00

WARDEN

Pretty intense, huh?

MARK (voice-over)

I checked my watch. From the time we returned from the Contraband Control Room and drank the Gravy to now, only thirty seconds had passed!

Part of me wanted so much to profusely expatiate upon this bewildering, implosive contraction of time; to concoct some erudite correspondence—to propose, for instance, that it was like not only seeing your entire life flash before your eyes in an instant, but like experiencing the entirety of Homo sapiens phylogeny, as narrated by some jabbering Dominican A.M. drive-time merengue DJ, in the time it takes for an air bag to inflate in a 90-mile-an-hour head-on collision (and you’re in, like, one of those little Suzuki Sidekicks and the other vehicle is, like, a fucking Amtrak locomotive); part of me desperately wanted to somehow articulate to her my sense of awe and wonder that, from a warm broth of prebiotic molecules splashed up on Precambrian rocks and baked in the sun some 4 billion years ago, three pounds of deeply fissured neural tissue could evolve—the human brain—capable of apprehending—as evidenced by my own dumbfounding epiphanies (e.g., the karmic and eschatological merits of body-fat composition and LSAT scores, etc.)—not only the most recondite principles of the physical universe, but the origins, structure, procedures and modalities of consciousness itself.

But all I said was …

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