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unable to discern the contradictions

[...] to install your replacement head place the head assembly on neck housing and insert guide pins through mounting holes hold head firmly in position with both hands and rotate slowly clockwise until assembly locks into place if your replacement head features a built-in dish antenna you can test…

—p.142 My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist by Mark Leyner
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he refused to pitch on may day

[...] he'd been the first rigidly orthodox soviet-style marxist-leninist to pitch for a major league team this was thanks to the enlightened and farsighted hiring practices of brooklyn dodgers owner branch rickey who signed my uncle in the early 50s, to the almost unanimous displeasure of organized…

—p.142 by Mark Leyner
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caterwauling

the caterwaul of two engines

—p.110 by Mark Leyner
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the youngest forensic pathologist ever

Owiginally we thought death was caused by pawalytic shellfish toxin, said the forensic pathologist, kills in half a second—death and wigor mortis are simultaneous—but we wuled that out. The forensic pathologist was only four. He was an astounding prodigy, the youngest forensic pathologist ever, but…

—p.81 by Mark Leyner
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dappled

The hood of my Hyundai is dappled with the morning dew.

—p.80 by Mark Leyner
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