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Paul Auster

Mr Vertigo

David's closing remark

“Such a great premise, and it really delivers. It's thrilling and very funny at times, especially when Walt is ranting. It's a more traditional narrative than the other Paul Auster novels I've read. Also learned lots of 1920s mid-west profanities :)”

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Yeah, thanks for the tip!

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Sebastian Razola commented

Such a good book!

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rube

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beat my meat.

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- Henrik Berggren
  this sounds awful
  
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clod

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bedevilment.

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my unit

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She wasn’t my servant, after all, she was my wife.

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privy

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fervent

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They don’t make men like Master Yehudi anymore, and they don’t make boys like me either: stupid, susceptible, stubborn.

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cornpone

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boon.

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I’d wanted to build up the pressure slowly, to lull him with such elaborate, airtight arguments that he’d eventually come round on his own.

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I mean, who cares if a place looks crummy or not? As long as it’s got some people in it, it’s bound to be interesting. Subtract the people, and what’s left? Emptiness, that’s what. And emptiness don’t do a thing for me but lower my blood pressure and make my eyelids droop.’

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razzing

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was

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Quinn,

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‘Listen, Diz,’ I said. ‘I’ve been where you are. Twelve, thirteen years ago, I was sitting on top of the world. I was the best at what I did, in a class by myself. And let me tell you, what you’ve accomplished on the ball field is nothing compared to what I could do. Next to me, you’re no taller than a pygmy, an insect, a fucking bug in the rug. Do you hear what I’m saying?

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sulking

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runt

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some reason, Mrs Witherspoon found this funny. She threw back her head in a fit of laughter, and for the next fifteen seconds the air rippled out of her windpipe like a swarm of flying grasshoppers. I’d

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bravado.

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- David Kjelkerud
  "a bold manner or a show of boldness intended to impress or intimidate." – http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bravado
  
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yegg

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ailing

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It wasn’t a vigorous, smart-stepping amble, but a kind of shuffling ghost-walk, the way an aerialist advances along a high wire.

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I had depended on him for so many years, had drawn so much strength from his strength, and now he was acting like any other blithering optimist, another one of those guys who welcomed the good when it came but couldn’t accept the bad.

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torpor

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That was when the turd slid out of my crack: a loose and slippery cigar that thudded against my drawers with a warm, sickening wetness, then started sliding down my leg.

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- Henrik Berggren
  Testing this!
  
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  This part was very bizarre and unexpected.
  
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If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself.

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- Christoffer Klang
  Hippie crap! =)
  
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Walt the Wonder Boy

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conniption.

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Imagine waking up one morning to discover that you have a new face, and then imagine the hours you would have to spend in front of the mirror before you got used to it, before you could begin to feel comfortable with yourself again.

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leaving

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haughty

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‘Well, a man has to do his duty. He can’t leave a girl high and dry for two months and expect to get away with it. That’s not how it works. A pussy needs love. It needs to be stroked and fed, just like any other animal.’

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din

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tepid

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stumblebum

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For some reason, Mrs Witherspoon found this funny. She threw back her head in a fit of laughter, and for the next fifteen seconds the air rippled out of her windpipe like a swarm of flying grasshoppers.

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Paul Auster

Mr Vertigo

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