In the excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s The Mezzanine, he speaks in a very business-like and scholarly fashion that depicts an almost heavenly imagistic environment with “escalators of daylight.” Baker’s use of diction such as “towering volumes,” portrays a refined and controlled choice of words. The office’s description of “a pair of integral signs” as escalators “swooping” render Baker as a writer who creates mathematically exact metaphors. With an almost picturesque illustration on an office in which “marble and glass,” “brushed steel” and “black rubber” meets sunlight to create “long glossy highlights” and “radians of black luster,” Baker draws in readers within the very first paragraph of his novel.
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