egg beater

“I’ve always been passionate about literature,” he said in his cell, where a desktop fan converted into an egg beater — he had taken up prison-style baking — sat not far from books by Guillaume Apollinaire and Marguerite Duras.

Whisks are wonderful, she wrote, “for beating eggs, sauces, canned soups and for general mixing. They are easier than the rotary egg beater, because you use one hand only.”

"They lifted up the eye and went into the corner and tapped it through and wiggled it around with this egg beater thing," he says.

The door’s differential-driven gears churned like an overzealous egg beater.

Craft’s direction, too, has an air of calculated eccentricity, like a musical sequence in which one performer plays an accordion and another an egg beater, while a third toys with a child’s ball.