He leaves Joy "dumb with wonder and astonishment".
"My attitude seemed to say that I was struck dumb with wonder and suggested that I was gaping at him like Moses before the burning bush," recalls Kwasi tartly.
It's in those moments — in which he imagines, say, his surrogates dumb with wonder at the thousands of pink-mauve jellyfish sailing by "like clouds in the water" — that we feel the affecting complexity of his presence, asserted triumphantly.
The build-up to England entering a football tournament is characterised by a slow abandonment of my own internal cynical logic for this sort of dumb, puppylike wonder and optimism for the future.
Soon, they racked up a fortnight of acts so dumb you wondered if they'd done it deliberately.
They were among the first generation to swipe a dumb screen and wonder why nothing happened; the first to say when a toy was broken: "Don't worry, we can just download a new one"; and the first to be aware that the real world runs seamlessly into the digital one.
If I have a friend with me, he or she might tell me to move, but I won't know what direction I'm supposed to go in, so I flail around like a big dumb animal and wonder why I have always been "the spazzy one".
If I have a friend with me, they might tell me to move, but I won't know what direction I'm supposed to go in, so I flail around like a big dumb animal and wonder why I have always been "the spazzy one".
The following film, Moonraker, sees Bond in a comic chase scene with a gondola that becomes a hovercraft, a continuation that Bond author Raymond Benson considered "so dumb that one wonders at what age group the film was really aimed".
