"...suggested an English surrealism..."

The light fittings all suggested an English surrealism; cast iron bouquets of garden flowers, enamelled to pale and powdery colours, the whole construction appearing to float from the powder blue ceiling.

Michael Bracewell, The Crypto-Amnesia Club 

Missing Margate

In London the meetings never end; the curiously stylised self-importance that patinas the fundamental banality of their careerist participants must be endlessly serviced by ritual, an egomania masquerading as the exchange of information.

Michael Bracewell, Missing Margate