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“Listen, I said the hell with it. You’re going to go back to your room at whosis—Blue Shutters—and get some rest, that’s the important thing,” Lane said.

Just: Oh how are you, I had another baby named whatsit or whosis.

“Do me a favor. Go out in the kitchen and tell whosis to give her her dinner early. Willya?”

"You look like a guy in the movies. You know. Whosis. You know who I mean. What the heck's his name?"

Rose raises Miriam in Sunnyside Gardens, the Queens neighborhood that comes to represent World War II-era Communists “in pursuit of that chimera, the Dialectical Whosis,” as Mr. Lethem writes memorably in the book’s opening scene.