false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167937001m/28220.jpg 28220 12 <I>The Fermata</i> is the most risky of Nicholson Baker's emotional histories. His narrator, Arno Strine, is a 35-year-old office temp who is writing his autobiography. "It's harder than I thought!" he admits. His "Fold-powers" are easier; he can stop the world and use it as his own pleasure ground. Arno uses this gift not for evil or material gain (he would feel guilty about stealing), though he does undress a good number of women and momentarily place them in compromising positions--always, in his view, with respect and love. Anyone who can stop time and refer in self-delight to his "chronanisms" can't be all bad! Like Baker's other books, <I>The Fermata</i> gains little from synopsis. The pleasure is literally in the text. What's memorable is less the sex and the sex toys (including the "Monasticon," in the shape of a monk holding a vibrating manuscript) than Arno's wistful recollections of intimacy: the noise, for instance, of his ex-girlfriend's nail clipper, "which I listened to in bed as some listen to real birdsong." 1129657 1994 The Fermata total:993|5:232|4:393|3:245|2:88|1:35| 993 3678 1226 127 3 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue May 01 15:46:18 -0700 2007 Tue May 01 15:53:10 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 2 false false Fri Jun 22 12:42:24 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 22 12:42:24 -0700 2007 vox), this novel tells the tale of a dysfunctional intellectual who figures out how to stop time...then uses the ability to keep his life in a perpetual stage of suspended adolesce...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jan 24 18:39:55 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 19:02:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Fri Aug 17 23:39:27 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 23:42:32 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 3 false false Sun Jul 29 20:47:09 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 29 21:26:43 -0700 2007 4 2 false false Thu May 31 09:28:55 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 12:52:42 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Mon Dec 15 02:54:21 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 14:32:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 01:22:38 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 03 04:22:50 -0800 2008 Mr. Morrison recommended I check this out after reading that "Killing Time" thing I wrote. And yeah, it's kind of exactly the same idea stretched to the length of a novel. Namely, what would you do if you could actually stop time (answer: take people's clothes off).

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He has "fold-powers" - he can stop time and continue to walk around and interact with the world. This was one of my boyhood fantasies (also flying and being able to become invisible at wil...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2002 Tue Sep 25 14:15:48 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 25 14:21:56 -0700 2007 3 0 false true Thu Apr 02 11:53:23 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 08:42:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=28220