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What Ms. Kane has done in these scenes of ordinary squalor — and it amazes me that she could pull this off with such confidence in her early 20s — is set up a precise template for everything that follows.
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"She was already fully the thing that was just starting to happen to the rest of the street" is one of the novel's most powerful lines, both because it sets up a precise bit of social commentary, and because, were it really to be true, it represents a chilling shallowness — as if a person were just the consumer goods and interior décor they surrounded themself with.
Set up a date.
Set up a bank.
Set up a table.
Set up a craft table.
Set up a bank account.
Set up a dinner fundraiser.
Set up an account.
It's one thing to set up a surround sound system as precise and advanced as Atmos in a theater, where there is a stationary audience and a fixed point of focus (the screen in front of them).
Set up a store.
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