I was thrilled with 99: The New Meaning, which brings together five separate experiments in borrowing short excerpts from several authors and collaging a new text. Flaubert and Kafka are the more prominent sources used. While some reviewers may focus on how the excerpts make up a narrative or a new text, what seems more overt to me in the experiments is how homogenous the sources actually are. Perhaps the selection process meant Abish was looking for "sameness" between voices in order to create unity. It may seem that Flaubert and Kafka are overtly disparate sources, but if a case is to made for the Formalist taxonomy of narratives, this book seems to prove the case. As I read, I cared little about recognizing the sources. Tropes dominate, and subjectivity, despite its unique and several sources, is remarkably similar from excerpt to excerpt. This is one I'll be interested in talking about with friends, or perhaps teaching, in the future.