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	Match - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Matches are rarely sold singularly; they are sold in multiples, packaged in either match boxes or in matchbooks.
		A match is typically a wooden stick (usually sold in match boxes) or stiff paper stick (usually sold in matchbooks) coated at one end with a material, the match head, often containing the element phosphorus, that will ignite from the heat of friction if rubbed ("struck") against a suitable surface.
		Their safety is due to the separation of the combustible ingredients between the match head and a special striking surface, and the replacement of white phosphorus with red phosphorus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Match (1723 words)

	Book Review - A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
		There are passages in a novel when the author catches a moment or a scene perfectly and the reader has an "aha" moment where they instantly identify with it.
		Nicholson Baker's novel A Box of Matches is full of those "aha" moments.
		He lights the fire with a match from the box of matches, and when the last one is used, the book is done.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /box_of_matches/review (571 words)

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		Nicholson Baker’s novel “A Box of Matches” is about a middle age family man named Emmett who decides to get up early every morning while everyone else is sleeping, light a fire, and think about life.
		Sprinkled throughout this novel among the more routine thoughts of Emmett are his serious reflections about the meaning of life, the passage of time, and the mystery of death that seem to be brought on by this self-induced crisis.
		Emmett takes the 32 days of the novel, which coincide with 32 matches in the matchbox, to review his life, come to terms with his age, past regrets, and the inevitability of death.
	us.geocities.com /imissbigsky (1113 words)

	Nicholson Baker Fan Page: A Box of Matches
		A Box of Matches is similar to The Mezzanine in that both books don't really have a plot.
		But Matches is less analytical, and has a completely different tone.
		The Mezzanine remains my favorite (I like the footnotes!), but A Box of Matches is not far behind.
	j-walk.com /nbaker/boxmatches.htm (311 words)

	Nicholson Baker (Bold Type Magazine)
		A Box of Matches is Nicholson Baker's latest novel and continues his search to celebrate life and find beauty in the everyday.
		Without turning on the lights, he brews himself a cup of coffee and carefully carries it to his living room where he completes his eccentric little ritual by picking up a box of matches and lighting a fire in his fireplace.
		A Box of Matches is the perfect book to read on a blustery winter day while sitting in a cozy armchair by a fire.
	www.randomhouse.com /boldtype/0203/baker/index.html (249 words)

	BookPage Fiction Review: A Box of Matches
		A Box of Matches is both the title and central metaphor of Nicholson Baker's new novel.
		The narrator uses matches each morning to build a pre-dawn fire, and his small matchbox also represents the contained days of an ordinary life.
		While conventional novels have a central conflict that builds to a crisis point, A Box of Matches works on a cyclical, postmodernist plane.
	www.bookpage.com /0301bp/fiction/box_of_matches.html (239 words)

	A Box Of Matches \| The Onion - America's Finest News Source
		The foundation of A Box Of Matches couldn't be simpler or less novelistic: Each morning, Emmett, a middle-aged textbook editor, wakes up early, builds a fire, makes coffee, stares at flames, and thumbs through a jumble of thoughts that range from moderately compelling to not particularly interesting.
		Throw in a few tender tracings of family dynamics and a pet duck living in the backyard, and all the pieces are in place for a slim novel that trades its modest means for a similarly modest payoff.
		Little things and big things get equal shrift in a mix of memories and of-the-moment sensations, such that watching his toes react to a dropped bar of soap proves just as moving as anecdotes about his young son's wide-eyed charm.
	www.theonion.com /content/node/20795 (327 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Box of Matches: a Novel: Books: Nicholson Baker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Reading Nicholson Baker's sixth novel, A Box of Matches, one searches so futilely amongst tangents for the book's main subject that it is tempting to say this novel is all board and no boulder—but not quite.
		During this vigil, which derives its duration from the number of matches in a box, nothing even remotely extraordinary happens.
		A Box of Matches is one of the most unique books I've ever read due to the fact that it consists of a man regaling us with his random thoughts, theories and advice.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0375502874 (2493 words)

	Truth in a box of matches - The Islamic Garden
		The second man reached into his pocket and took out a box of matches.
		He threw the box onto the table asking, 'What is that?' His friend smiled, a crooked smile and cunningly replied, thinking it a trick question,
		You must know it is a box of matches.
	www.islamicgarden.com /boxmatches.html (154 words)

	WerBong! A Box of Matches.
		One man's simple, colloquial meditations on his past, his family, and his life's daily minutia are the substance of Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches.
		Feeling that life is passing him by, Emmett, a middle-aged medical textbook editor, decides to wake up early each day to sit by a fire in his country house and record his thoughts in a diary.
		All told, nothing much happens in A Box of Matches, which seems to be the point.
	www.werbong.de /preis-0099448386.html (466 words)

	A Box of Matches - smh.com.au
		Nicholson Baker - particularly in his second novel, Room Temperature, and now in A Box of Matches, and implicitly or explicitly through his fiction and non-fiction - is Williams's heir.
		A Box of Matches transpires over 33 mid-winter eastern-seaboard mornings, in which 33 living-room fires are lit by the contents of a box of matches.
		When the last match gutters and expires, our narrator returns to his uxorious bed ("uxorious" is a Baker kind of word).
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/04/11/1049567869112.html (631 words)

	Ultimate Magic Network: Magic Library: Read Trick
		Hold a box of matches with the tips of your fingers and watch how the drawer slides out all on it's own.
		Pick a side of the box and with the exacto knife, cut a slit along the edge of the end of the strike pad, where the strike pad meets the red or white side of the box.
		One it is out, put the match in position to be slid through the notch or shave you made, and slide the box closed again.
	www.ultimatemagic.com /library/read.php?trick=1647 (257 words)

	John's Book Reviews: A Box of Matches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He decides, one day, to take to getting up at four in the morning, and uses that dark time as a way of letting his thoughts flow without the input of daylight or as little other media input as possible.
		This results in a sweetly smooth flow of gentle thoughts on matches, ducks, apples, marriage and more.
		The duration of the book is one box of matches, a match for each day, and it is unclear if, once the box is gone, Emmett continues to enjoy this ritual.
	sprg.ssl.berkeley.edu /~jmcd/book/revs3/abom.html (268 words)

	A Box Of Matches - Nicholson Baker - Used Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Nicholson Baker's novel, Emmett gets up every morning for 33 mornings--one for each match with which he lights the fire in the fireplace--and drinks his coffee, eats his breakfast, and writes his daily chapter about his life.
		In the course of his ruminations, what comes through is his appreciation for the mundane and the forgotten, and his sadness at the ephemeral beauty of the world.
		"A BOX OF MATCHES is about going nowhere, a route that Nicholson Baker travels better than anybody....The imagination is a wilderness of infinite possibility for him, and all his books are located there in the way that Updike's are located in the suburbs.
	www.biblio.com /books/102323874.html (597 words)

	A box of matches : a novel by Nicholson Baker \| LibraryThing
		A box of matches : a novel by Nicholson Baker
		Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches is a novel that has no plot.
		The book is graciously divided into 33 short chapters and each chapter represents each of the 33 matches from the box Emmett strikes every morning.
	www.librarything.com /isbn/0375502874 (825 words)

	A Box of Matches- A Book Review at Neeter Skeeter's Place (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Nicholson Baker's A Box of Matches is based on a very simple premise.
		When the box of matches used to light the fire is finished, so is his habit of waking up early just to think.
		If you are looking for an enjoyable and relaxing book to read this summer, A Box of Matches is one book you are sure to like.
	www.neeterskeeter.com /bookreviews/cat/fic/matches.html (344 words)

	'A Box of Matches, by Nicholson Baker
		Early each morning, he rises alone in the dark, descends to the fireplace and lights a fire in the dark, using a box of wooden matches.
		When he uses the last match in the box, the book ends, rather abruptly.
		Yet, despite a faintly humorous riff on the problem of urinating in the dark, this novel lacks the hilarious bawdiness that enlivened "The Fermata," where Baker's descriptive capacities and raunchy humor merged to form a new kind of literature.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20030406matches6.asp (660 words)

	Book Reviews - A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker
		In A Box of Matches, he tells the story of Emmett, a middle-aged man who finds life passing him by.
		Each morning, he lights a fire with a match and writes his thoughts in his journal.
		When the box of matches is emptied, the novel is done.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /box_of_matches (175 words)

	Books \| A quick burn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A Box of Matches is Baker’s latest book, and it just might be his most radical thought experiment to date.
		He has a box of matches, 33, in fact.
		To say this is risky concept for a novel is a gigantic understatement; anyone who’s ever contemplated his or her own navel knows what strange daytrips the mind will take when permitted to wander.
	www.portlandphoenix.com /books/top/documents/02769226.asp (814 words)

	Ultimate Magic Network: Magic Library: Read Trick
		You take out a box of matches and go to lite your cigarette or candle but when you open them they are all used.
		You then say I hate that when people put used matches back in the box, oh sorry it was me I hate it when I do that.
		Secret : All you have to do to make it look like it is a used match is dip the match in fl ink, and then wait for it to dry.
	www.ultimatemagic.com /library/read.php?trick=900 (461 words)

	Amazon.com: A Box of Matches: A Novel: Books: Nicholson Baker (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		By contrast, the narrator in A Box of Matches seems a bit world-weary and lacks that same sense of wonderment.
		Each chapter, or morning rather, he shares amusing, interconnecting stories about things such as his old Fuji camera, the suitcase his father gave to him, tiles from an old railroad station that he and his father put into their fireplace, and how he came to have a duck for a pet.
		Often whilst reading `A Box of Matches' I was struck by how entertaining it was despites its seeming ordinariness.
	www.amazon.com.cob-web.org:8888 /Box-Matches-Novel-Nicholson-Baker/dp/0375502874 (2482 words)

	Review: A Box of Matches by Nicholson Baker \| Review \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		When the box of matches is used up, he will be done.
		One takes this more or less on the nod at the time, unsure whether one should feel hard done by if no explanation is forthcoming; later on one is. But Emmett doesn't know what an emmett is, while Baker sure as hell does.
		Which may make you question the degree of thrall A Box of Matches will hold you in.
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1112206,00.html (822 words)

	"A Box of Matches" by Nicholson Baker - Salon
		Witness this passage from his new book, "A Box of Matches," in which the narrator dedicates many hours to contemplating the illumination -- in both its true and metaphoric forms -- provided by a series of early morning hearth fires:
		"A Box of Matches" is all about observing life with fresh-morning eyes in new light -- intense as a flash of fire or the glare when a refrigerator door is opened in the darkness or pale as the moon or the green glow from a smoke detector -- and seeking out its deeper truths.
		The bits and pieces of our own lives seem suddenly sharply illuminated as if by the flare of a match -- and then deeper truths are revealed in the softer glow of the evolving flame's embers.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/review/2003/01/17/baker/index.html (686 words)

	Smoky Mountain News \| Reading Room (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the midst of this enthusiastic endorsement, the reviewer noted that Baker had been around for a while, having published a torrid little erotic novel (Vox) in 1992 followed by an equally steamy work, The Fermata, in 1994.
		The Time reviewer dismissed both of these earlier novels, hinting that they were the inept fumbling efforts of a gifted writer who had been much too preoccupied with the sensual, lewd and ardently sexual.
		With obvious approval, the critic concluded that Baker had now matured and A Box of Matches (unlike Baker’s earlier works) is finely crafted, intelligent and devoid of “damp carnality.”
	www.smokymountainnews.com /issues/02_03/02_12_03/book_carden.html (1172 words)

	TIME.com: Adventures in the Everyday -- Jan. 20, 2003 -- Page 1
		In A Box of Matches, Baker's first novel in five years--and his first good one in much longer (let's try to forget the clammy sexual intimacies of Vox and The Fermata)--Baker returns to the delightfully discursive, observational voice he used in his first novel, The Mezzanine.
		But in A Box of Matches this voice has acquired a husky resonance it never had before, a basso register that hints at dark, existential depths.
		By the end of A Box of Matches, Emmett is a different person: a better, happier, more observant person.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,1004063,00.html (525 words)

	RCF - Book Reviews
		The narrator of A Box of Matches, a medical-textbook editor named Emmett, constructs his world for us in typical Bakeresque fashion by observing his surroundings and indulging in imaginative fantasies.
		Emmett is an admirable, gentle soul who wants to protect those around him, including his two children, his wife, and his pet duck.
		When Emmett finishes his box of matches, the reader is sorry to see him go.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /review/bookreviews/03_2/box.html (319 words)

	NATO BCB Matchless Fire Set
		This kit has the advantage of lasting much longer than a box of matches and its components are sealed.
		A match is great if the conditions are perfect for a fire.
		Instead of burning briefly like a match, the Matchless Fire Set burns long enough to light almost anything that is flammable, and will provide intense heat with just what is included in the NATO Matchless Fire Set.
	www.bestglide.com /matchless_fireset_info.html (139 words)

	A Box of Matches Only Cost 5 Cents (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The general government formed what was known as the Freedman's Bureau; a Freeeman's bank was also formed; all the negroes enticed into investing their savings therein; all the money amounting to thousands, were stolen by their pretended worshipers, the yankees, who made so many professions in their behalf.
		Says he, "if the white people mistreat you, remember a box of matches only cost 5 cents, implying you can burn them out and get revenge in that way if no other.
		As time progressed, matters in state got worse instead of better; our jury system was controlled to suit them, made up mostly by the negroes.
	adena.com.cob-web.org:8888 /adena/usa/cw/cw185.htm (951 words)

	A HOUSE OF FIRE : FIRE MAGIC : FIRE OR MATCHES
		This is great for teaching fire safety for children, or great for a comedian with a cooking act.
		Show the inside to reveal a box of unstruck matches.
		You can substitute the matches for sponge balls, silks, anything that fits in the box.
	www.ahouseoffire.com /p2.html (62 words)

	Boy Finds Syringe In Toy Box - Health
		When her son brought her what he'd found in the box, he had already been scratched -- maybe by the Legos, maybe by the syringe.
		Ewoldt said she should have looked through the box, too, but she insists the syringe came from the store.
		Ewoldt said that in addition to the syringe, she and her son found a toy dart, a small metal rod, a ring, a box of matches and some batteries that had leaked.
	www.ketv.com /health/2814334/detail.html (397 words)

	Swan Vesta Matches on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
		I was disppointed to find the matches are no longer red but pink.
		Inspired by this image I went out and bought a box of Swan Vesta matches to photograph.
		I was disppointed to find the matches are no longer red but pink.
	flickr.com /photos/lwr/20509366 (360 words)

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