BAKER, Nicholson

p. 41

But other things, like gas pumps, ice cube trays, transit buses, or milk containers, have undergone disorienting changes, and the only way that we can understand the proportion and range and effect of those changes, which constitute the often undocumented daily texture of our lives (a rough gravelly texture, like the shoulder of a road, which normally passes too far for microscopy), is to sample early images of the objects in whatever form they take in kid-memory - and once you invoke those kid-memories, you have to live with their constant tendency to screw up your fragmentary historiography with violas of lost emotion.

The Mezzanine, 1988.