"Somebody get Rewrite!" Lew pretended to cry, affably enough.
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I'm counting this as two lines even though, given the peculiarity of language and punctuation, it is arguably one sentence. I feel like Lew has yelled, "Somebody get Rewrite!" (apparently Quirkel's nickname) and then pretended to cry about Nate's choice of partner for him, although in an obviously good-natured way.
Since we're in some kind of magical realist Chicago where Lew Basnight can "step to the side" of space and time, it's not outrageous to believe that somebody with the nickname "Rewrite" has some special abilities of his own. Or maybe Lew just made up this nickname, riffing on Nate's mention of somebody hiding in an alley attempting to rewrite history. Perhaps Lew is saying Quirkel is so bad at the job that this "rewriting of history" is all but assured by putting him on the case!
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