Modern science doesn't exactly picture a tidy, knowable universe, and in sympathy, I think, a lot of new music makes beginnings, middles and ends a vague concept.
But the cluttered vacancy of American consumerism is exactly the sort of tidy thematic statement Clark usually avoids, and the onslaught of information only serves to remind us how little the author has given us by way of characterization.
As long as you keep everything immaculately tidy and exactly in the place it is designed for, and also you don't have anything more than like two coats and one pair of trousers that need hanging up, this is a very ideal space.
He has noticed, for instance, that while in Hudson Ashbery keeps the formal rooms downstairs perfectly tidy and knows exactly where each object belongs, in Chelsea this is not the case.
The tidy paperback volume, exactly seven hundred pages of smallish Trump Mediaeval, with a warm and informative introduction by Francisco Goldman, has the supple heft of a newborn classic, a latter-day "Don Quixote" whose central persona, both amusingly shadowy and adamantly consistent, moves around the globe somewhat as the Knight of the Mournful Countenance traversed the plains of Spain.
You do not need to measure it exactly to end up with a tidy, folded shirt.
The expected language is absent, making it hard to put the experience into a tidy box or to know exactly what to think about it.
Ka wanders through the town's murderous chaos receiving tidy inspiration and producing 19 poems of exactly 36 lines each.
The Yankees have played exactly half their games, a benchmark that provides a rather tidy insight into some individual performances.
