pataphor in Still Life

"... After she had completely soaked the foam rubber mattress with her bitter weeping, she hurled the mattress out the window into the blackberries below.

... Seizing the Camel pack, she squeezed it in her small fist, toppling the pyramids and busting the dromedary's hump. Mummies ran from the pyramids in panic, dragging their wrappings behind them. Water spewed form the camel's cracked hump like a fountain of tears."

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Still Life With Woodpecker
Tom Robbins