The characters don't gain depth as the story proceeds; they slip further away from us.
Slip of the Tongue proceeds as a series of dramatic conversations and confrontations.
At the end of Trainspotting, the characters' lives seemed mapped out until death – apart from Mark Renton, who gave fate and his friends the lastminute slip by stealing the proceeds of a drug deal and escaping to Amsterdam.
When wooing a bohemian college professor, for example, she slips hallucinogens into his drink and proceeds to strip while wearing rainbow lingerie. .
Ms. Gallagher then proceeded to slip eagerly into an lively and informed 20-minute conversation about the race.
She proceeded to slip her greased body inside the balloon, where she danced before bursting the balloon.
He proceeded to slip and fall in his own vomit, before making a fuss and demanding we pay him damages, seeing as IKEA had failed to keep the floors clean.
The big Jamaican smashed 105 off just 80 balls before hitting a loose shot off Anderson and being caught at slip by Andrew Flintoff - who proceeded to mimic Gayle's celebratory chicken impersonation from earlier in the series.
Slip off those skins and proceed to the Mediterranean.
