The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker

Author:Nicholson Baker
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780802144904
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1988-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

(1) The lines of Creamsicle-colored shine on the shrink-wrapped edges of the row of record albums in my living room as they appeared in the evening when I came home from work.

(2) A discarded cigarette pack still wrapped in its cellophane; specifically, the delight of running a lawn mower over it, buzzing its glints and paper out over the dry grass.

(3) The mowed remains of a dinner roll I had seen once on a nice Saturday morning on the way to the subway. It was a potato-sized dinner roll, judging by the white shards, and bending closer, I recognized it as the kind of tasteless lovable roll that was included free with your order from a nearby Chinese takeout place. It had been mowed over where it lay that morning on the sharp slope that fell to the sidewalk (the street must have been widened at some point in the past): looking at it, I had imagined the flicker of indecision on the mower’s sweaty face—“Rock?—No, a roll.—Stop?—Not on this tricky slope—Push on,” and then the dip of the engine’s drone and the card-shuffling spatter that followed, leaving, in place of a Chinese dinner roll, a neat circular distribution of white fragments.

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