Excerpt from "Shopgirl"

This might get me arrested for illegal copying, but it's so good.

When she runs into Lisa at the time Clock Cafe, she finds herself sitting across from her exact inverse. It is as though her every thought, trait, and belief had been turned inside out and decorated with a red wig. Lisa, idly curious about Mirabelle in the same way that a cat is curious about a dust mote, invites her to sit down. But Lisa's curiosity has talons, and she knows she must appear to be as benign as Mirabelle in order to casually extract the maximum information. If Immanul Kant had stumbled across this luncheon after his noon Beverly Hills shrink appointment, he would have quickly discerned that Lisa is all phenomena and no noumena, and that Mirabelle is all noumena and no phenomena.

This book is completely disarming. Go buy it and read it now. YOU MUST!

p.s. "noumena" = a posited object or event as it appears in itself independent of perception by the senses.

p.p.s. "posited" = disposed or set firmly.