“Add the alcohol-blush on the cheeks and the crumbly looking nose with its violet cracks, and you have someone who looks a lot like a dirty puppet. There’s always something that resembles damp breadcrumbs in the creases where the different pieces of his face meet: between jaw and earlobe, nostril and upper lip, eyelid and brow. It’s a yellowish putty at the joins of his features, as if they’ve been mortared together with cheese.”
