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Listen. Most people have t'get mugged in Central Park. Lucky f'you I deliver.

She was a step-up transformer of fury. Held at the wrong angle, Bettina could give deep moral paper cuts. Her face was painted with Van Eyck detail, unkissable: making love to her must have been like a game of electric jackstraws - buzzzzz, foul.

It is as if James Joyce, for his sins, had been forced to grow up in Queens; as if Sam Beckett had been mugged by Godot in a Flushing comfort station; as if Sid Caesar played the part of Moby Dick in a Roman Polanski movie shot underwater in Long Island City; as if Martin Heidegger has gone into vaudeville...Mr. Mano is Tom Wolfe, and Hunter S. Thompson and Henderson the Rain King. -- John Leonard, New York Times.