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21 August 2005

Searching for pg124 of DeLillo's Americana So there I am, sitting on the couch with what could be the last pleasure-reading novel I'll have the chance to enjoy for a while (school really limits these things), when suddenly I turn the page and oh my god, it's blank! (cue dramatic music). This is tragic, really. Anyone able to break out their own copy and scan/photograph page 124 for me?

post by: hopeless romantique at: 01:47 | 5 comments

can't you go to amazon and click "search in this book" and then search for the last sentence on 123 and then turn the page?

posted by dobbs 21 August | 04:37

All Amazon has is a five page excerpt from the beginning of the book.

posted by hopeless romantique 21 August | 13:34

did you click "search in this book" for the phrase on page 123?

posted by dobbs 22 August | 00:53

I remember a joke -- maybe from the New Yorker -- about LeCarré. It was said that you could rearrange the sections of his books at random and they would still make sense (or no more or less than before), and the joker claimed he'd actually had a bookstore cooperate with him to melt the binding on several copies of his latest tome, which were then reglued out of order ... and sold to patrons. The bookstore owner, the claim went, while being perfectly ready to replace them with correct ones, never heard a complaint.

Maybe you're the victim of such a prank. English majors are such japesters!

posted by stilicho 22 August | 00:58

I was! Page 124 was found after page 126... The next 40 pages were out of order as well. So strange...

posted by hopeless romantique 22 August | 15:50

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