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In his memoir "Roll the Calls" (to be published Tuesday by Knopf), Hollywood superagent and mogul Ari Emanuel writes of coming to blows in the competitive entertainment universe – and, in one instance, being sidelined by the business end of a truck.
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I rise early, do a hard workout, go to the office.
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I → rise → office
Roll calls for several hours, speak to fifty or sixty people about fifty or sixty problems, then look up and realize I'm spent.
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I → roll → problems
I walk down the street to Kate Mantilini's.
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I like their omelets.
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One block east of there, I stop, wait for the light.
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Cars whipping by.
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Cars → whip → ?
I take note of how fast they're going.
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Someone could really get hurt right here.
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At the restaurant I sit by myself at a corner table, wolfing my omelet while reading a script.
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I → sit → script
At the same corner where I noted earlier how fast the cars were whipping by, I stop, wait for the light.
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I → note → light
When the WALK sign flashes, I step off the curb and turn my head just in time to see the front grille of a black pickup.
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I → flash → pickup
My body has been hit many times.
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body → hit → ?
As a wrestler I was slammed to the mat headfirst, back first, ass first.
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I → slam → mat
As a boy trapped in a small apartment with two violent psychopaths, a.k.a. my older brothers, I was thrown into bookcases, tables, doors.
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I've been coldcocked, blindsided, bitch-slapped, smacked around.
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I've never felt anything like this truck hitting my knees.
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truck → feel → knees
Fender scooping me, flipping me like a big spatula, into the air.
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Fender → scoop → air
As I fly, thoughts ricochet around my head.
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thoughts → fly → head
So this is what it's like to fly.
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Landing isn't going to be great.
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I have so much to do.
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The calls, how will I roll calls when I'm unconscious? Or dead?
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I loved you so much, Life.
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I'd have given my life for you!
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And this is how you do me?
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you → do → me
But then the universe doesn't spurn me.
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universe → spurn → me
It embraces me.
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I land on the hood of the truck and roll onto the pavement.
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I → land → pavement
My body bounces once with a wet thud and comes to rest in the middle of the road.
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body → bounce → road
Eyelids fluttering open.
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Did I lose consciousness?
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Eyelids fluttering closed again.
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All my parents' stories had the same moral: Life's a fight.
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It's some gladiator s**t, loser gets fed to lions.
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loser → feed → lions
The world doesn't care.
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world → care → ?
Keep your fists clenched and your head on a swivel, unless you want to find yourself lying in the street bleeding out.
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I've wasted my one precious life.
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I → waste → life
…and 8 more, not listed.
The Aporia
