"a hermeneutic clotting"

pacing to and fro right in the middle of it, a pair of pigeons peck specks of nourishment out of a half-dried puddle of vomit

new york city pigeons, they are

Noel's eyes

Noel's smile

so beguiling

actually it's more like a frozen smoothie of uncooked bacon rind and butterscotch with some crispy almost-charred bacon bits mixed in for "texture"

Haagen-Dazs, Caramel Cone flavor: like frozen salty snot, with bits of crunchy hard bogie in it

strangely, despite the lingering savory aftertaste, couldn't quite bring myself to throw away the remainder of the pint pot... it's still in the freezer

"very fussy about lids"

"it's a lovely box -- it's like the 2001, A Space Odyssey of boxes"

"what could be more flawless than stationery?"

"the St Albans branch of Rymans"

"he had some sort of fear we would somehow run out of stationery"

"he used to joke he was going to open a stationery nostalgia museum"

snazzy tazzy

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