‘I wonder. How can anyone go window-shopping when people actually buy glass toffees? How does one say “That’s what I’m going to buy when my boat comes home” when you’re already buying whatever you want?’ ‘I think your budget would constrain you still.’ ‘It would, I suppose. But window-shopping was tourism once upon a time. You never thought you would take any of that stuff home. You didn’t think it would belong to you. Like the Taj Mahal. You went to look at it and then you got a good shot of it running in your veins. You now had some beauty under your eyelids.’
