Mr. Hill has asked for a complete, yet brief, close reading of "The Mezzanine" by Nicholson Baker so here goes nothing!
In this short excerpt from "The Mezzanine", Baker provides detailed imagery that depicts the scene of the lobby. Baker describes as the escalator as "They were the free standing kind: a pair of integral signs swooping upward between the two floors they served without struts or piers to bear any intermediate weight" and he tells us that "On sunny days like this one, a temporary, steeper escalator of daylight, formed by intersections of the lobby's towering volumes of marble and glass, met the real escalators just above their middle point, spreading into a needly area of shine where it fell against their brushed-steel side-pannels, and adding long glossy highlights to each of the black rubber handrails" By using such imagery and specific details, one is able to clearly paint a picture of the lobby in their minds.
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