unearths some literary gems.
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It was funny, I suppose, but at the time, my sense of humor was vacationing on another island.
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[Bonus: This is book 4 in a series. At one point in book 3, a character (nonrecurring, afaik) who's a ballet dancer who moonlights doing TV commercials tells the narrator-protagonist about having danced opposite a tube of toothpaste all day. Now, in book 4, the narrator-protag (who, as we've known since book 1, had a past career as a tap-dancer), refers to herself as having been a tap-dancing tube of toothpaste on a TV commercial. In other words, the author--perhaps having decided in retrospect that the tapping toothpaste was too good to have thrown away on a one-time character--has reassigned this resume item for her star!]
