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...most outrageous parties at Harvard, when he wasn't playing the piano at Boston's Club Cafe or Adams House's Club Mardi, when he wasn't club-hopping with his army of close friends, when he wasn't cavorting through the Harvard Yard snow wearing a pink fur coat and nothing underneath, when he wasn't chewing 20 sticks of Cinnaburst at once to win a bet, when he wasn't bumming cigarettes off homeless people, Thomas has managed to fulfill his academic requirements...
...woman in these songs drags her notorious past around as if it were a fur coat worn too long in the rain. She is someone who has done everything and now wants to feel anything. Each disappointment is a station of the cross leading to a Calvary with no payoff: "Ashes to ashes, rust to dust, this is what becomes of us" (Primitive). At the end she is withered, regretful, a little wiser, like a Samuel Beckett creature on her deathbed. She knows this last journey will be a vacation: "Dying is easy. It's living that scares...
...time they sent all of us to one of those awareness training sessions. There was one of those tweed ladies, you know, with the tight tweed coat buttoned up to here, like this, and she say in this mincy little voice, 'You are going to say some things that might make other people uncomfortable, but I want everyone understand, anything you say in this room stays in this room...
...ride west at sixty miles per hour on the Mass Pike had seemed very, very long. The morning air had contained hints of a March chill, and I had dressed accordingly, but by mile three I had tied my sweater around my waist and was carrying my down coat...
Celia lives up to his modest expectations when she torments him, leaving the coat rack or the vacuum cleaner in front of the door on her way out. But her antics have a motive--her love for Martin; she uses the booby traps to retaliate against his apathy toward her. They complement each other well. That is, until Andy (Russell Crowe) comes along...