It was not just that he had terrible style: he also gave the impression that he was deliberately desecrating the very idea of wearing clothes.

“Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, fi…”

“The couple in the Skyline came to mind. Why did I have this fixation on them? W…”

“A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. …”

“I looked at her without a word. She held an edge of the beach towel in each han…”