Monday, August 9, 2010

Character: Man in Gym

He's got an elongated head, bald on the top, fringed with gray hair, which reminds you of the monastic and maniacal vultures that were featured in the early Disney animations. He favors tight undershirts of the Brando variety,out of which protrude a pair of bony shoulders covered all over in rambles of gray hair. He visits the bathroom often, and when he returns he is often sniffing his fingers with canine absorption, as if decoding some olfactory puzzle. He likes to warm up on a treadmill, which he sets at an angle so severe that he must hold onto the handrail in order to stay aboard. While he warms up he ogles nearby women with the most spectacular, enthusiastic, and shameless leer. His features light up, his head stays turned at a severe angle on his neck and his eyes grope up and down the anatomy of his unfortunate desire with impunity. In this, too, there is something cartoonish -- the glee and lust of a villain just before the dynamite is detonated.

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