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Nicholson Baker · 1994
Sequence ladder
Narrative Intelligence sources live outside the figurative image sequence ladder. Adaptive placement applies to image sequences, not this reading library.
What this book knows
Suspended time is the erotic imagination's ultimate tool: Baker maps desire as a complete private universe of looking, writing, and longing.
desire
My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent on some fluid mixture of curiosity, sexual desire, and love, all suspended in a solvent medium of loneliness.
BAKER-FER-RC-050I love looking at women. I particularly like being able to stare at any part of her that calls out to me for as long as I want without troubling or embarrassing her.
BAKER-FER-RC-007erotic-as-power
I hit the button on the remote and freeze her… something comes over me, and I can't go through with it, even though I want to so bad, and a big tear runs down my face.
FN-RC-070I slipped my hands under immobile Arlette's skirt to see if talking about Kari Thalmeiser had made her detectably wet. It had not.
BAKER-FER-RC-070mind-and-cognition
Too undisciplined to write simply for the pleasure of writing, I nonetheless felt able to write as long as it served some specific sexual end.
BAKER-FER-RC-077As I wrote onward… picking the setting and the physical traits of my few characters pretty much at random, I got interested in what I was doing.
BAKER-FER-RC-101Illuminates
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