It‘s a silly book that takes place over the course of a single escalator ride. Baker does a great job of stretching the brief moment out with random reflections and long footnotes
One of my favourite books… 200 pages about a bloke riding the escalator up to his office. so many musings about everyday life, great vocabulary, detours, etc. just lovely and life affirming in its mundanity
135 pages of a shallow man giving his deepest thoughts as he prepares to go up to the mezzanine level of his office building via the escalator. Topics include extended treatises on shoelaces, paper towels in the bathroom versus air dryers, and plastic straw technology. A reverse-American Psycho satire of Reagan-era business that finds its disturbing moments in the narrator's most anodyne observations.
Blew threw this in an afternoon, but it left me utterly lost at just HOW vast Borges' Library of Babel would actually be. Great little intermission between PI.FYI BKCLB books.
I recently bought some nice stationary to write letters (I already had a pen and some ink I love). I just sent out my first one and it felt really good. Something about the scratch of the pen on paper, then sending the only copy of my words to someone close to me really hits. I recommend double checking that the envelopes you buy are large enough for the stationary though…
