Helpless, I dittoed his order. I drew on it while he went into the other room. But it is also real, and I wanted to capture the texture and the material sense of it — what it is to be on the streets and what it is to enter someone's apartment. "You haven't changed, you're like a dreamy child, that's the secret of your appeal. He cast his eyes, the good left and the meandering right, at her shelves, the cacophony of titles scribbled on labels there. It can't be explained. Strange things happen in the NYC depicted in the novel; a mysterious tiger randomly destroys buildings and underground stations; a grey fog envelops Manhattan's Downtown; people are fascinated by mysterious chaldrons, gorgeous vases that are only seen in pictures, because nobody seems to have ever seen the originals; people keep asking Chase about his fiancée, Janice Trumbull, stranded on the orbital space station, even though he cannot remember anything of the woman but her letters. This was the first week of September--the city's back- to- school mood always inspired me to find something to do with my idle hands. As Seattle teenager Andrew Detmer endures frequent abuse from bullies and his alcoholic former firefighter father Richard as well as his mother Karen dying of cancer, he starts videotaping his life. His shirt collar was grubby and crumpled. The state of being chronic or lasting on a long-term basis. At his bedside, Richard informs an unconscious Andrew that Karen has died and blames him for it; as his father is about to strike him, Andrew awakens and implodes his hospital room. A hot-water pipe whined. He laced his high-tops. [3] Chronicle was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on May 15, 2012. In reality, many people continue to live healthy, productive lives despite the pain. The doors opened, and we stumbled together out to the pavement, tangling at every threshold: "You first — " "Oops — " "After you — " "Sorry." His pride intervened, and he was gone. I don't really own the building. For The City Is a Maze, I mean. [14] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. ", "He's written a couple, sure. And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David to the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD has come. - New York Magazine " [Lethem is] a writer who resists pigeonholing....it's hard to remain unsusceptible to his euphoria"-- Los Angeles Times When he returned — with a VHS cassette and his sneakers and a balled- up pair of white socks--he accepted the joint from me and smoked an inch of it himself, intently. All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. He asked for a cheeseburger deluxe and a Coca-Cola. What causes a chronic cough? This is what makes chronic pain such a complex condition. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. I was famously in love with a woman who had no time to spare, not even a breath, for she dwelled in a place beyond time or the reach of anyone's Rolodex, her every breath measured out of tanks of recycled air. I had a cold for a few days, acompanied with cough. Stranded in the room's center in his suit and bare feet, palms defensively wide as if expecting something unsavory to be tossed his way, Perkus reminded me of an Edvard Munch painting I'd once seen, a selfportrait showing the painter wide-eyed and whiskered, shrunken within his clothes.