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The protagonist is Lila Mae Watson, an elevator inspector of the "Intuitionist" school. The Intuitionists practice an inspecting method by which they ride in an elevator and intuit the state of the elevator and its related systems.
1 de ene. de 2001 · Lila Mae is an Intuitionist, perhaps the best living Intuitionist, with a 100% success rate and an almost spiritual understanding of her craft. Which makes it even more shocking when an elevator she has recently inspected goes into total freefall, a catastrophic accident at a crucial moment.
Lila Mae Watson, a young black woman who came to New York from the South, is an Intuitionist. She works by turning the movement of the elevator into pictures in her mind, a whirl of geometric...
The Intuitionist. Colson Whitehead. Anchor Books, 1999 - Fiction - 255 pages. It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, the...
Lila Mae is an obsessively determined individual; nothing deters her. She adjusts to her room, a converted janitor’s closet, at the elevator inspectors academy.
Lila Mae is an Intuitionist, with the highest accuracy rate in the department. But when an elevator goes into freefall on her watch, chaos ensues. It’s an election year, and the good-old-boy Empiricists would love nothing more than to blame an Intuitionist.
4 de ene. de 2000 · Lila Mae is an Intuitionist and, it just so happens, has the highest accuracy rate in the entire department. But when an elevator in a new city building goes into total freefall on Lila Mae's...
