Inside Michael Chabon's Mind

A sentence from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, deconstructed. Nothing to it, folks.

“They were in the room where the boy-genius artists kept their drawing room tables and taborets, a room variously referred to by its occupants over the years as the Bullpen, the Pit, the Rathole, and Palooka Studios, the latter a name often applied to the entire apartment, to the building, occasionally to the neighborhood, and even, on grim, hungover, hacking mornings with a view out the bathroom window of a sunrise the color of bourbon and ash, to the whole damn stinking world.”