I find it to be one of his weaker efforts, given how it limps, crawls and staggers along in places, intentionally trying to be clever, obscure and confusing to the reader.
At the height of my illness, I remember the smell of the bubble bath, how its sweetness crawled up my nostrils as I sat in the 10 inches of water I'd been permitted: jasmine, ylang ylang, shea butter.
The title invokes the dark and mud of Samuel Beckett's 1961 prose work How It Is, all the endless crawling, yard after yard, towards nothing at all.
Her TED Talk is about how she wants to make computers big again so big that a child can crawl inside and learn how it works from the inside out.
"Break her arms, break her legs," Lakshman's grandmother would say about her daughter-in-law, "then see how she crawls to her bottle".
I cried because I remember standing in my mom's house in Mexico, how it did not have a fully closed roof, how bugs crawled on the walls, how the walls had cracks, and how my family never had much opportunity to improve their lives.
"People have used machine learning algorithms to partly analyze how a fruit fly flies, and how a worm crawls, but this is the first systematic description of an animal's behavior," said Rafael Yuste, a neuroscientist at Columbia University.
Next comes Emerson Place — and who is to say how that name crawled its way onto the Brooklyn street map?
Once you've mastered down, it will be an easy step to teach your dog how to crawl.
Graduate student Andrés Valenzuela, SM '11, figured out how to get it to crawl, for instance, which turned out to be useful; it fell during the competition and crawled to the finish line just as time expired.
