A young Nick Shay is called into the office of Father Paulus at a remedial Catholic school in northern Minnesota. Inside, the priest asks the protagonist of Don DeLillo’s Underworld to name all the parts of a boot. “There’s not much to name, is there?” Shay answers. “A front and a top.”
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A young Nick Shay is called into the office of Father Paulus at a remedial Catholic school in northern Minnesota. Inside, the priest asks the protagonist of Don DeLillo’s Underworld to name all the parts of a boot. “There’s not much to name, is there?” Shay answers. “A front and a top.”