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2 unusual facts about The Mezzanine


Drinking straw

Nicholson Baker's novel, The Mezzanine (1988), includes a detailed discussion of various types of drinking straws experienced by the narrator and their relative merits.

Francesco Cancellieri

His essays begin with short islands of statements, but rapidly these are surrounded by an ocean of footnotes, an erudite diluvium of quotations and citations, resembling the style of the modern novel The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker.



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Ca' Rezzonico

In the 1880s, it became the home of the painter Robert Barrett Browning, whose father Robert Browning, the poet, died in his apartment on the mezzanine floor in 1889.

La Cisterna metro station

The station on Line 4A occupies the median of an entrenched section of Vespucio Sur Expressway and is spanned by a bridge carrying Gran Avenida, whose central deck forms the roof of the mezzanine of the station.

Museum of Flying

The Mezzanine of the new Museum features a replica of the Douglas Aircraft Company Executive Board room, and a recreation of the office of Donald W. Douglas, Founder & Chairman of the Douglas Aircraft Company.