a man possessed by the antic spirit of drumming

In poetry, this failure to stop at the end of the line, this challenge to metrical closure, this desire to get more in, is called enjambment.

Austerlitz is a voluble scholar

The human seems to have been reified by time

As the stolid rugby players do not, these victims seem to be looking at us

undeniably accurate and veridical photographs of buildings

we experience a vertiginous relationship to a select number of photographs of humans

Ishiguro, as ever, is interested in far foggier hermeneutics

Ray is a liberal meliorist

a superb combination of free indirect style--the technical term for third-person narration that is so close to a character's thought that it resembles first-person monologue--and stream of consciousness