Get Shorty, however, is the most intricate meshing of narrative and meta-narrative, concluding with a lovely Calvino-like consideration between Karen, Harry and Chili of how it should end: "Chili didn't say anything, giving it some more thought.
While sharing the roles of masseur and recipient can be a lovely way to show consideration for each other, do bear in mind that the first recipient will often be so relaxed and chilled out by the massage that expecting a massage straight away from your partner can be asking too much and risks undoing all the pleasure you've given him or her.
Examples of the critical walk-back include the consideration of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones in The New York Book Review and Mary Gaitskill's better-late-than-never pan of the blockbuster Gone Girl.
When a man does plan the date, a woman is sure to mention all the details he took into consideration to make it a lovely evening, and thanks him graciously.
But a lovely memorial, like the towers of light under consideration, could be built without turning the whole site into a funerary park.
Some of those issues were addressed in The Line Of Beauty: the interest in lovely old houses and possessions, inevitably entailing some sort of consideration of the people who live in them and own them.
I am now severely deaf with very debilitating tinnitus (my hero was Jack Ashley, as indicated in a previous letter), and when the lovely young Harry rings to say a letter is under consideration, a somewhat dark day becomes considerably brighter.
A sun umbrella is a lovely Olden Day touch not much used these days but still worth consideration to complete the picture.
Robert Lawrence Oxford Like Jean Jackson (Letters, 25 August), I have become very fond of "the lovely young Harry", who occasionally rings to say that one of my brief letters is under consideration.
Steering clear, very clear, of the options list is a prerequisite of X1 consideration, lest a buyer arrive in the neighbourhood of the larger X3, or that lovely Evoque.
