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I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes. Nicholson Baker apartmentbackhoeforklift Change image and share on social
Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master. Nicholson Baker adultmachinemaster Change image and share on social
E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop. Nicholson Baker essayhavemaine Change image and share on social
Maybe the Kindle was the Bowflex of bookishness: something expensive that, when you commit to it, forces you to do more of whatever it is you think you should be doing more of. Nicholson Baker bookishnessbowflexcommit Change image and share on social
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound. Nicholson Baker addbeatend share on social
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish. Nicholson Baker affiliationbookchronology share on social
It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price. Nicholson Baker callchangecredit share on social
Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence. Nicholson Baker bookbookstorebring Change image and share on social