You're pretty much at the point where I put it back on the shelf. The whole book is like that! hrefs don't scale to the printed novel page, imho, though I've heard from several that they enjoyed it quite a lot.
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Inspired by the dictionary-lookup action of Defective Yeti's nanoremo, I've decided to document the cultural allusions I need to lookup (and will admit to) in order to understand the cultural witticisms of the novel, Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
Introduction p.7 : "(He resembled Alice B. Toklas with that specter-mustache.)"
p.8 : "It was unmistakable -- her low voice of sex and highways, equal parts Marilyn and Charles Kuralt, but it had changed."
p.11 : "Charles was St. Gallway's dreamboat, its Doctor Zhivago, its Destry Rides Again."
p.19 "I was five when she died, and unfortunately, unlike those geniuses who boast vivid memories of their own births ('An earthquake underwater,' said renowned physicist Johann Schweitzer of the event. 'Petrifying.'), my memory of life in Mississippi stutters and stalls like an engine that refuses to turn over."
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Close this window Jump to comment formYou're pretty much at the point where I put it back on the shelf. The whole book is like that! hrefs don't scale to the printed novel page, imho, though I've heard from several that they enjoyed it quite a lot.
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