Yet this gallimaufry of satire, real history, fake history, and score-settling, narrated by a round robin of voices that talk over and under and around one another (even the AIDS virus gets its say), never loses that relentless, fatiguing quality that is the hallmark of all books written out of an obsession.
And either way, watch for the relentless spread of fatigue -- and tips to combat it.
Going back through the calendar now, more than 18 months after my father died, the entries chart a relentless physical decline — profound fatigue, sore hips and knees, aching wrists, swollen legs, inflamed teeth, increasing forgetfulness, the savage indignities of old age.
The fatigue was relentless.
The offense's relentless pace prevents defenses from making substitutions, forcing fatigue and mismatches.
In Aleppo's Old City, where every one of the few thousand locals who have remained appears fatigued by relentless misery, talk of a ceasefire is common.
An early criticism was that Stoppard's playwriting lacked sufficient warmth and that the relentless cleverness could be fatiguing.
Consumer bewilderment and tech fatigue are stalling the relentless march to the digital nirvana.
Television news showed a young boy howling in a shaking evacuation center, as if his fatigue from nature's relentless harshness had reached its limit.
