Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Pg 179

The laughter sent my thoughts to our kitchen table, where we would laugh and laugh.   That table was wehre we were close to each other.     It was instead of our bed.    Everything in our apartment got confused.    We would eat on the coffee table in the living room instead of at the dining room table.    We wanted to be near the window.    We filled the body of the grandfather clock with his empty daybooks, as if they were time itself.    We put his filled daybooks in the bathtub of the second bathroom, because we never used it.    I sleepwalk when I sleep at all.    Once I turned on the shower.   Some of the books floated, and some stayed where they were.    When I awoke the next morning I saw what I had done.    The water was gray with all of his days.