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Wednesday, November 02, 2005

I WAS AT a Barnes & Noble today looking for, among other things, "Portnoy's Complaint." The store had every other Philip Roth novel but not that one, and I asked an employee to double-check.

And then watched as she typed on her terminal "port noise complaint."

Ah, yes, the tragic hero, driven mad by the bellowing tugboats ...




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