Interrogative Mood

''If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell''s: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can''t quite describe but don''t need to'' Richard FordAre your emotions pure? Are your nerves adjustable? How do you stand in relation to the potato? Should it still be Constantinople? Does a...