Beauty afflicts him crossing the ro...

Beauty afflicts him crossing the road a sculpted line of nose or finely lathe-turned ear, tanned cylinders of jogging leg the semiprecious buds of green or blue-gray judgments (brilliant with microscopic flaws). The commonplace accosts him everyday, white accidents of gene and useful nutrition: these children of the middle class hurrying to classes, meals and parties, rushing to their disappointments. They don't want to be late. He's running late. He thinks, They mean too a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of to me: the boys drinking Lite beers who scoff from passing jeeps, or the striplings who say, Excuse me, who've