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In fact, I hated Loomis — let me count the ways. His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts — his patchiness, the way even his spe… - Jonathan Lethem
" "In fact, I hated Loomis — let me count the ways. His imprecision and laziness maddened my compulsive instincts — his patchiness, the way even his speech was riddled with drop-outs and glitches like a worn cassette, the way his leaden senses refused the world, his attention like a pinball rolling past unlit blinkers and frozen flippers into the hole again and again: game over . He was permanently impressed by the most irrelevant banalities and impossible to impress with real novelty, meaning, or conflict.
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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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Harry Conklin
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Jonathan Allen Lethem
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To tugboat was to try Minna's patience. Any time you pushed your luck, said too much, overstayed a welcome, or overestimated the usefulness of a given method or approach, you were guilty of having tugged the boat. Tugboating was most of all a dysfunction of wits and storytellers, and a universal one. Anybody who thought himself funny would likely tug a boat here or there. Knowing when a joke or verbal gambit was right at its limit, quitting before the boat had been tugged, that was art.
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