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that has characters you could care about,
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as well as being extremely ambitious in this way,in this formal way.
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Now that novel, the way it tried to get sentiment
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and verbal play to line up, was in part by making one of the
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central characters an Alzheimer's patient.
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So, it's about a family, a midwestern family, and the two
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parents get extended treatment in the novel,
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as do the three children, grown children, in the family.
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And the father has Alzheimer's, and so there's a very
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Pynchon-esque scene,
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when his, actually, his shit starts talking to him,
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and this is taken right out of Gravity's Rainbow.