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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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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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the Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Institute of Psychiatry

[...] When my wife left her people in Ethiopia and returned with me to the U.S.A. she was very homesick and cried for weeks and weeks. She was unable to acclimate herself to this culture. She became irritable and I often had to resort to my most powerful kung fu to subdue her tantrums. As time went…

—p.54 by Mark Leyner
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unemployed laboratory mice

[...] Unemployed laboratory mice laid off after cuts in federal research funding huddle in skid row alleyways guzzling miniature bottles of airline whiskey. [...]

—p.51 by Mark Leyner