Quoting Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, Atlantic, p. 10, 1988

It would have been less cumbersome […] to have pretended that […] thought had come to me complete and “all at once” at the foot of the up escalator, but the truth was that it was only the latest in a fairly long sequence of partially forgotten, inarticulable experiences, finally now reaching a point that I paid attention to it for the first time.

— Nicholson Baker, The Mezzanine, Atlantic, p. 10, 1988

10:49am on January 26, 2025 from Vancouver, Canada.


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