The dancers occasionally look like voyeurs, standing at corners to spy upon various encounters.
For nearly two hours, more than half of the Council's remaining 50 members recounted their various encounters with him, some of them funny, some poignant.
At the end of the book, Weiner embraces a hybrid God cobbled together from his various encounters: "His foundation is Jewish, but His support beams Buddhist.
In it, Mr Mitterrand, who is the nephew of a Socialist former president, fills pages with extraordinarily detailed description of his various encounters.
"I was saddened by the pain and frustration that they expressed about various encounters on the campus and the number of incidents that made them feel unwelcome," he said.
There, desperate to control his past by rewriting his memory of it, he obsessively relives a fateful day back home, playing and replaying a reel-to-reel tape he recorded of various encounters with his mother and their neighbors.
There are various encounters along the way with the likes of Tony the Outlaw, who is too preoccupied with home improvements on his modest hut to be bothered with actual outlawing, and the Locum of the Lake: "They needed somebody to cover.
When you have finished reading of Mr. Nossiter's various encounters with the French, undertaken in three venues, each with its own experience of the war, you feel as if something essentially bitter, unflattering to the human species, has been disclosed about the ways that men and women practice protective self-deceit.
Various encounters with people and conversations with friends led me to booking myself onto a vipassana retreat.
But then, as look around me and think about the various encounters I have had this week, I realize that for many, this statement may just ring true.
