So it becomes glorious to get to be just one for a little while.
What begins as a faintly chilling overlap of the underworld and the everyday – Ray washes his hands 'in the bathroom of a Burger King' – becomes glorious farce when normality refuses to go back in its box and let drama take over.
The deplorable, one-game-and-you're-out, double-wild-card system became glorious in the first inning at Yankee Stadium last night, when Didi Gregorius hit a three-run homer for the Yanks, improbably tying the game against the Minnesota Twins at 3 3.
And much sooner than I could have imagined the days became glorious.
When I arrive, though, all suddenly becomes glorious, as the place is designed to make you feel a bit like you're sitting inside a big hot pot of lost Inca gold.
In what has become a glorious "mess", the animals live out in the open all year round and give birth unassisted by humans.
The scaffolds, in fact, are bearing the weight of the sweep of iron girders which, when glazed, will eventually become a glorious self-supporting roof with a mezzanine of shops and coffee bars beneath.
Suddenly the animation landscape has become a glorious mashup of old and new techniques, with hand-drawn features jostling for screen space with faux-naif stop-motion and gleaming computer animation.
For those of us lucky enough to have watched Messi and Ronaldo over the last nine years, the memories will never fade; they will only become more glorious.
