there'll be no need to find a really expensive parking lot
"Above all, Bellow saw the world anew. When he looked, say, at icicles hanging from a hospital roof, he saw them resembling the teeth of a large fish, and then saw the "clear drops burning at their tips". Burning! When he described a younger man helping an old man across a street, he noted the "big but light elbow" of the old man. Big but light! There indeed was a writer attending to the world, attending to the body, missing nothing."
James Wood, "The high-minded joker", The Guardian, 2005
"The consultant’s name was Mr Todd. This can only be considered a joke in bad taste on the part of polyglot fate. It could have been worse. There’s a name De’Ath, with that fancy medial capital and apotropaic apostrophe which fool no one."
"The kettle came to the boil and switched itself off and the seething water inside it settled down grumpily."
John Banville, The Sea, 2005
No fundo é isto.