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“Yet Ivor felt like the man who, when he is in the city, yearns for the tranquility of the countryside, and when he is in the country misses his urban distractions. He is only truly happy on the train traveling between the two locations”

“Sex is for the poor man his davening. of course, there’s the eating and drinking and the chitzpedik movement of the bowel, but ah, the shtupping! I’m shtupping almost every night, almond on Monday, almost on Tuesday…”

“It was surely a blessing to have their tzaddik back in their midst again, apparently intact even if frozen stiff, but what now? In former days it was the rebbe himself to whom they would have applied for advice, but he was unavailable for comment”

Portnoy allusion on page 1!? Oh no…

“‘If medical practitioners wanted to save lives,’ said Baxter, ‘instead of making money out of them, they would unite to prevent diseases, not work separately to cure them.’ “

“How did you explain to a child the idea of gravity, until they knew what it meant to fall” (185)