And from his mouth comes paragraph after paragraph of super-abstracted business-speak.
This is Oldham's lengthy interjections into Lawson's prose, which come in paragraph after paragraph of quotation, sometimes five and six at a time.
Then come several paragraphs describing the workings of wheels, spindles, treadles and other such accouterments.
A chronically ill mother said: "one phone number and I'd know, I am in good hands, they will help me and won't come with paragraphs and thousands of application forms.
It is 16 paragraphs long, and the endorsement of Mr. Romney comes in paragraph 13. "Above all else, we both agree that President Obama must be defeated," Mr. Santorum writes.
Then comes a paragraph famous in Western literature.
This suspenseful moment comes in Paragraph 1, Chapter 10 of "The Perfect Store: Inside eBay," Adam Cohen's new book about the most successful company in Internet history, the world's leading sponsor of electronic auctions.
But then comes a paragraph indicating that Salesforce is actually paying Microsoft for the patent coverage "based on the strength of Microsoft's leading patent portfolio".
Delicious zingers like this come by the paragraph, part of what makes the novel such a rollicking good time.
Every once in a while, tucked among the musings of fusty British academics, we come across a paragraph so full of vivid, startling detail it seems worth reproducing in full.
