nancing around in tight pants

It will be the same silence, the same as ever, murmurous with muted lamentation, panting and exhaling of impossible sorrow, like distant laughter, and brief spells of hush, as of one buried before his time.

The two of them walk along the wall gazing at the framed objects- which could, I suppose, be called collage-work. I recognize a frameful of typewriter parts put together to resemble a procession of cripples.

Heartburn and acid reflux are the next commonest symptoms.