I only meant, you know, you shouldn’t be wasting your time on imbeciles. I know how hard it is to find the right person, but that’s no reason to exhaustively work your way through all the wrong people. You seem to be living your romantic life by some kind of process of elimination. It’s like matching a Louis Quatorze armchair with one of those plastic patio tables. It simply doesn’t work.” “Oh, I see, ” Bel said. “I’m an armchair, is that it?” “A Louis Quatorze armchair, ” I qualified. “And my boyfriends are patio tables.” “Actually, ” I remembered, “this one’s more like one of those self-assembly Swedish wardrobes. . Paul Murray
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