It was an awful looking machine: Two decades old, and too broken down to be considered anything but a piece of crap. The original golden paint was worn away, leaving marbled streaks of white and dark in the steel. The seats were threadbare, with the ones in the back spilling chunks of brown and crumbling [...]

With just four colors Ike can see it all.
Patterns on paper absorbing and reflecting light. Unreal images perceived as if they were true, tricking the mind, engaging the imagination in vicarious perception. The images lock into Ike’s brain, connecting with the human mind’s relentless need to parse, perceive, and resolve everything it sees. His hunger [...]

Slung over Harry’s left shoulder, the handbag looked completely ridiculous. It wasn’t simply that a fake leather purse was a terrible accessory for 50-year-old man, it was that his attempt to make it appear as if he didn’t care that he was carrying a handbag made it painfully obvious that he did.
The handles were squeezed [...]

Does anything lie more freely than the container for a cream or paste?
Removes, restores, revitalizes, moisturizes, lifts, refreshes, soothes, relieves, whitens, darkens, lengthens, and lasts all day with a single application.
They are slippery and smooth, and we smear them across every exposable surface of ourselves in a desperate hope that we can be fixed from [...]