In two glorious instances, her vignettes demonstrate that behind every stereotype lurks a human being with a surprise in store.
Google is a glorious example.
It has some glorious comic moments, where for instance his father dies trying on an extremely tight‑fitting pair of trousers.
It doesn't fully translate into sound — unlike the glorious "Lipinski" Stradivarius violin, for instance, which passed through the hands and lives of a number of composers beginning with Giuseppe Tartini, and whose fascinating journey is chronicled on a gorgeous recent CD, "A Violin's Life," with performances by Frank Almond.
For instance, in the glorious Byzantine mosaic of the Last Judgement in the Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta on the island of Torcello in the Venetian Lagoon, a swivel-eyed blue ogre with a wild white beard presides over a fiery infernal lake in the bottom right corner.
Between these two instances arises a desire for communication and self-support: because the city does not resist by the force of its fixed shape alone, by its morphology or architecture (no matter how representative or glorious they may be), but rather by the power of its language, which is open to new, daily poetry able to capture the entire energy of urban life.
Say, for instance, Polonius discovered on a glorious fall day that his ladder was too short to reach his leaf-clogged gutters.
What "Restless" lacks is the small grain of perversity that has made other New Order songs as glorious as they are inimitable — "The Perfect Kiss," for instance, from 1985, which includes an interlude of synthesized, ribbitting frogs.
For instance, no one has yet identified the pianist in the glorious recording of the "Mephisto Waltz" — assuming (the default assumption) that it wasn't Hatto herself.
What a glorious moment it was, truly one of those we-come-on instances that are so exhilarating.
