CANOBIE LAKE—PARK! Dun dun dun!

A guy who worked at Giant Glass lived in my hometown. He consistently parked his van behind a tree; my brother and I always saw a GIANT ASS walking home from school.

I hate to be the one jizzing all over Nabokov on a well-deserved DFW lovefest, but the former's lecture on how to read literature (find it, appropriately enough, in "Lectures on Literature") is pretty great.