» marginal gloss: bar soap
She was the first person to introduce him to bar soap. While he had always been aware that soap came in bars, he would never buy them for himself before he met her. He couldn’t stand the way a bar of soap left a slick of itself whenever it was left wet on a surface, and he hated the scummy…
Reminds me of Ulysses (Sweny’s lemon soap) with a zippier plot, and the myth of Achilles
