A Barcelona chair becomes a fully eroticized object — "the angle of recline, the shortened legs, the offered-to-the-sky cant of the seat, it was engineered perfectly for someone to give, for someone to receive" — while a pair of plastic surgery patients, "given their gigantic white head-bandages and the underwater slowness with which they moved," resemble "very relaxed astronauts".
The description, as it happens, matches Gary's character perfectly, as someone who is emotional, disorganized, self-confident, artistic, generous, and careless.
"There's a little tab on the back of the neck which looks ornamental, but it actually protects you perfectly if someone tries to strike you with an axe".
Perfectly suggesting someone not quite a man and not quite a boy, his absolutely misery and despair, all the time underlined by a manic playfulness, part madness, part panic.
"I can remember perfectly well someone coming to me and saying 'look, we have to build another set of vaults and it's going to cost x-million pounds".
Perhaps no two sets of eyes will see exactly the same rose, and it may be frustrating when our experiences don't align perfectly with someone else's.
But the reality is that no matter how broken we are, there is a piece of us that fits perfectly in someone else's life.
"Someone's chucked out a perfectly good dog," someone says, while examining a canine's corpse.
Out in the real world, however, it remains perfectly clear when someone is just a bit scruffy and when someone has just rolled out of bed and plans to roll straight back in there when they have offloaded this burdensome child on to the school for the day.
No, but I'd be perfectly happy if someone else did!
