The former were tall and grew even taller and the latter were small and as such they acquired an inferiority complex towards the tall giraffes, thinking that everything giraffy was better.

Gent who was with her had a shoulderful of chips, for no apparent reason.

They chatted politics for a while.

... the recording of contemporary details, the use of personal fantasy, the broken narrative method, the showy technical brilliance, the incompleteness of form, the slyly frank autobiographicalness, the inner painfulness .