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My heart and the elevator, a plummet inside a plummet.

Jonathan Lethem

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Jonathan Lethem
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: February 19
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Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Jonathan Allen Lethem
Harry Conklin
Heart
Plummet
Elevator
Elevators
Inside

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