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This is the story of my teeth, and my treatise on collectibles and the variable value of objects. As any other story, this one begins with the Beginning; and then comes the Middle, and then the End. The rest, as a friend of mine always says, is literature: hyperbolics, parabolics, circulars, allegorics, and elliptics. I don’t know what comes after that. Possibly ignominy, death, and, finally, postmortem fame. At that point it will no longer be my place to say anything in the first person. I w...more

Absurdist translations can be tricky, and this is no exception. I liked it well enough, even if I was a little confused with what was happening. Turns out, that's part of the charm.
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I do not know where to begin! Really? A book about an auctioneer who buys Marilyn Monroe's teeth? Who auctions off his own teeth as those of historical characters? Who wakes up in an art museum he once was paid to guard??
This is an amazing, awesome book. I'm in crazy love! ...more
This is an amazing, awesome book. I'm in crazy love! ...more

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