So Jonathan Pine in Le Carré's The Night Manager, peering into Richard Roper's inner circle as he walks into a hotel room, sees Jed Marshall, soon to become his lover, with "a view of one perfect breast, its slightly erect nipple lifted to him by the action of her arms".
Unbound breasts mock the ideal of the perfect breast.
Comments that expressed some dissatisfaction were sometimes qualified by the recognition that although the outcome wasn't perfect, breast appearance was vastly improved by surgery.
On Buttercup contemplating stabbing herself in the heart, he quips: "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world.
The perfect hourglass shape with no arm flab, a thigh gap, full lips, perfect breasts, and a flat tummy.
"You have perfect breasts for an augmentation," he tells Kristen, using a purple Sharpie to etch on a new pair of nipples half way up her chest so they glare at him like perky assault rifles.
"Sagging" breasts, for example, are often simply healthy and perfect breasts that need a little support to look and feel their best.
My wife has gone completely silent now, staring up at a gigantic billboard of nearly naked brown twins coyly concealing their perfect breasts behind icy bottles of Corona.
While they're busy, she catches him staring at her "perfect breasts," which have earlier been, we soon learn, cut off in a double mastectomy.
With such a perfect substitute as breast milk, free and available to nearly all mothers (and breast milk donations or prescription-formula available to the small percentage of those that cannot produce milk), phasing out this unneeded product offers us an easy step to formulate a healthier and more sustainable human population.
