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Counting is a symptom, but counting symptoms is also a symptom, a tick <i>plus ultra</i>. I've got meta-Tourette's. Thinking about ticcing, my mind r… - Jonathan Lethem
" "Counting is a symptom, but counting symptoms is also a symptom, a tick plus ultra. I've got meta-Tourette's. Thinking about ticcing, my mind racing, thoughts reaching to touch every possible symptom. Touching touching. Counting counting. Thinking thinking. Mentioning mentioning Tourette's. It's sort of like talking about telephones over the telephone, or mailing letters describing the location of various mailboxes. Or like a tugboater whose favorite anecdote concerns actual tugboats.
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About Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem (born February 19, 1964) is an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer.
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Jonathan Allen Lethem
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Have you ever felt, in the course of reading a detective novel, a guilty thrill of relief at having a character murdered before he can step onto the page and burden you with his actual existence? Detective stories always have too many characters anyway. And characters mentioned early on but never sighted, just lingering offstage, take on an awful portentous quality. Better to have them gone.
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