"I suppose the appeal of novelty might rescue us from parody."

Armand has his doubts that the bowling can be rescued, but perhaps it will make for a decent hunting ground.

Normalcy is, potentially, another word adjacent to boring, but then, much of the clockwork structure of his life had entered in after. They were making an inordinate amount of money and taking on grander responsibilities, and although Louis was not a wild animal in need of caging, there was less room for mistakes. And when he was considered boring, wasn't he not at his most forgiving?

Ah. Yes, maybe a little angry, still. Maybe less for the exposure in itself, the thing uncovered, but the way it was done. A grenade, as Daniel said, in his hand. Justifications, reason, context, an explosion of shrapnel.

"Figure drawing." There, he thought of one. "Now that your hands are steady again."