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“He gave me a shout. We met at the top and decided to pop out-of-bounds. That zone was unfamiliar to me. I picked a random line and took off down the hill.”

“This is the group of seniors — the walk-ups, plus the appointments. They kind of have to just wait somewhere while we figure out capacity. And this,” Abraham explained, pausing to glare at the vaccine chasers, “is the random line that people camped out in from like 8 p.m. the previous night.”

North has used carriage returns as punctuation in other novels, but usually for mechanical reasons, like indicating a body swap; in “84K,” random line breaks combine with almost constant ellipses to lend the novel a distracted air, where no one seems able to carry a thought to its conclusion.

The poems in this, Lucie's second book, were written as "verse-letters": A random line from one offers a quick glimpse of her developed signature, a swift ecstatic style: "Invalid to sorrow — right half, left half, limbic & all/For memory or love — I am subject, subjugate, inthralled."

Creating arrows requires you to leave a lingering press on the screen to generate a discrete connector instead of a random line.