Piles of paper sat next to the sofa and the top of the fridge was stacked with old leather books. It was hard to find a place to put all of his maps and charts, because their apartment was filled with knickknacks and bric-a-brac and tchotchkes, which is just another way of saying a lot of stuff from all over the world. They had shards of thousand-year-old pottery and a knife made from the bones of a whale and a fanged spirit mask of the Liberian chimpanzee devil. When Oliver and Celia’s parents traveled, they never brought back T-shirts. Dr. Navel had put his rolled-up maps in the corner between a collection of traditional Zulu fighting sticks and the Cabinet of Count Vladomir, which was a medieval torture box. He had shoved his charts into the freezer, where there was plenty of room. He cleaned all the crumbs from under the couch cushions and even discovered loose change from five different countries that no longer existed. He didn’t want to throw it out, so he put it back under the cushions.
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