Meat Thermometer

By Nicholson Baker | August 3, 2009

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[The auction for this Significant Object, with story by Nicholson Baker, has ended. Original price: 75 cents. Final price: $51.]

Everything had a temperature in those days. Cheese was cold. Avocados were warm. My heart was a piece of hot meat pierced by love’s thermometer.

Nicholson Baker's books include The Mezzanine, Vox, and Human Smoke. A novel, The Anthologist, will be published in September 2009.

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