His descriptions of people done here with the Bolanoesque reversal:
“Coffeen was tall, taller than his mother, and you could tell that in his youth he must have been slim and well built, although now he was fat, or, rather, bloated. His forehead was broad, but it didn’t have the sort of breadth that suggests intelligence or sound judgement; it had the breadth of a … Read morebattlefield, and the battle had been lost, to judge from the rest of his face; thin, lank hair falling over his ears, a skull more like a dented bowl then a noble dome, light eyes staring at me with a mixture of suspicion and boredom. In spite of everything, I found him attractive. (I’m a born optimist) Amulet 132-33
