A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.

And on tonight’s episode, when she faces a crisis — the reactions to her incoherent TV interviews last January — the carefully created sentences she uses to explain her slurry, stumbly self-presentation says it all.

We […] strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, / How complicate, how wonderful, is Man!