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"So many books, so little time...." Jay's favorite never-ending sentence: "Muriel read on [from TV Guide]: 'Daddy Promised Us Salami and Eggs, the Cunning Pragmatist' -- a guy who's out one day innocently having a chicken chimichanga all by himself at a restaurant politely excused himself from the table and goes to the men's room and someone sidles up to him at the urinal and injects him in the right buttock with a powerful designer drug that leaves him cataleptic but fully sentient and sells him for $100,000 to the Museum of Natural History where he's dressed as a Netsilik Eskimo and imprisoned in a glass-encased exhibit with a paraffin Netsilik woman and six paraffin huskies who are harnessed to a low-rider sled with hydraulic runners and a scrimshaw steering wheel and to ensure that he does not waste away, he's given intravenous nutrients every night by a horrible man with rotten teeth who reeks of cheap schnapps, and his son and his daughter-in-law do absolutely nothing to notify either the police or the media, which confirms his original suspicion that they are accessories to his abduction and partook of a portion of the $100,000, and the greedy amoral bastards have the temerity to bring his sweet grandson Douglas to the museum to gawk and gesticulate at him -- starring Brian Keith, Buddy Ebsen, Nipsey Russell, and Lesley Ann Warren." from My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner |
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