Here is a Bodo’s bagel for him:
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Top half bagel
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Smoked turkey
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Lettuce
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Tomato
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Mayonnaise
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Bacon (to fatten him up)
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Bottom half bagel
Words I often want to use casually in conversation but then don’t, because I realize at the last minute I don’t know quite how to pronounce them
1. Irrevocable
2. Inconsolable
Where are the accents? No matter how many times I look up the pronunciations on Dictionary.com, I still can’t remember.
3. non sequitur (I can never say this word casually enough.)
4. coven (somehow I always find myself wanting to talk about witches, but with a hard or a soft O?)
The Wife, Part 2
Just finished Meg Wolitzer’s The Wife, and I loved it. It’s not only written in strong, muscular, and beautiful prose so transparent that you can see Wolitzer’s images in your mind’s eye, but it’s also a great story, full of depth and ideas. It has surprises and non-surprises, depictions of gender that resonate as true and some that don’t quite seem fair, and it is layered with contradictions, but the book gives the reader a lot to think about. I want to do a post soon on “feminine” versus “masculine” writing, an issue that Wolitzer explores in her book, but it is very late and I want to sleep on the novel for tonight. Ms. Wolitzer seems like a novelist that “owns the world” (in her words).
A few weeks ago I told myself that I wouldn’t read another novel about a novelist for a long time, but this one snuck up on me.