Nevertheless, he could remember the room in perfect detail.
Ms Selasi has an eye for the perfect detail: a baby's toenails "like dewdrops", a woman sleeps "like a cocoyam.
For driverless cars to work, every inch of road, every junction, road sign and signal everywhere will have to be mapped in perfect detail.
And that suburban backyard, with its dappled grass and perfect details, makes a middle-class cul-de-sac neighborhood look positively Edenic.
Office Space works not so much through storyline as through the steady accretion of perfect details, painstakingly assembled for maximum recognition and familiarity.
But it also contains a nod, and a riposte, to Poussin's most famous dictum: "Je n'ai rien négligé" ("I have neglected nothing").. Poussin was the artist of the precisely prepared, the perfect detail.
Mr Zedillo, while making clear he will not bend on the crucial issue of the budget deficit, said in his speech that he was ready to "examine and perfect details" of his plan.
She impales her family, by whom she is cruelly and undisguisedly embarrassed, upon one perfect detail: her mother refers to the local man they hire to mow their lawn in the summer as "the gardener".
This little nugget of a cut serves, like the artist depicting himself at work in tiny but perfect detail in the midst of a turbulent landscape, as a pointer to the realism of the wider picture.
Joseph Frank, another veteran model-subway maker, started with wood and styrene, recreating in perfect detail the Third Avenue El trains that he knew as a boy growing up at 84th Street and Third Avenue.
