How to Choose a Novel

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           Oedipa, behind her shades, looked around carefully, trying not 
           to move her head. Nobody paid any attention to them: the 
           air-conditioning hummed on, IBM typewriters chiggered away, 
           swivel chairs squeaked, fat reference manuals were slammed 
           shut, rattling blueprints folded and refolded, while high overhead 
           the long silent fluorescent bulbs glared merrily; all with Yoyodyne 
           was normal. Except right here, where Oedipa Maas, with a 
           thousand other people to choose from, had had to walk 
           uncoerced into the presence of madness. 

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Marshall McLuhan, the guru of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), recommends
that the browser turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like
that page, buy the book. It works.