Or enchanted slippers that made you invisible to all but the sharpest senses?
He still exhibits the sharp sense of humor that has made his work, like the well-known "How to Write About Africa," so resonant.
I could never relive my first sight of San Franciscan light on a pure white wall or blend into a Glasgow crowd with the sharp sense of Celtic heritage that I felt on my first visit.
A Sleep Of Prisoners, in which Bible stories sprang naturally from the experience of four soldiers spending a night in a church, was a great success in 1951: "Each of the dreams," wrote TC Worsley, "is dramatically conceived and touched off with that sharp sense of the comic incongruity of things which is Mr Fry's personal approach to life and words".
What is unique about her work is the combination of this mystical vision with the sharpest possible sense for the concrete, even in its humblest form: "One can't," she observes, "write directly about the soul.
Blogcritics Ray Ellis praised the "razor-sharp sense of humor" seen in the episode and thought that "In a season of mostly dreary, bland series, Dexter remains the most daring show on television".
But there are shadows, too: Tommy Simpson's death at the age of just 29 on Mont Ventoux in 1967; Lance Armstrong's seemingly compulsive doping (Cleijne gives the reader a sharp sense of the scale of this by juxtaposing liverish frames of the American injecting beside those depicting every one of his seven consecutive Tour de France "victories").
But Mr. Cameron, who had already attracted more than 80,000 followers by Sunday afternoon, clearly had not reckoned with the sharp, anarchic sense of humor that Twitter can unleash, particularly among the annoyed and the restive.
He peers out from exhausted eyes in confusion and pain, and although his mind may still be fogged by alcohol, you have the sharp, sad sense that he's never before understood his own unhappiness with such piercing clarity.
