over boundless massifs of vapor

the surprise discovery of his wife's lactose intolerance becomes "an unknown hinterland to our marriage"

Remainder's way turns out to be an extreme form of dialectical materialism--it's a book about a man who builds in order to feel.

The scatological thingy-ness of Joyce at his most antic.

Remainder ends instead in comic declension

a louche, chain-smoking Lebanese in a safari pantsuit

The giant lacunae in his biography are merely a convenience

sat high up by the cornice of the ceiling

it was too refined, hoydenish and superior

an aristocratic aviatrix