He had come from the humblest of backgrounds, born in a cottage he had built with his own hands

He was… a lost apostrophe in search of a word to which he might belong

His mode of speaking was largely incomprehensible, his tone was portentous, which is perhaps why he inevitably spoke in capital letters. Words existed in his speech as currants in a badly made bread-and-butter pudding - clusters of stodgy darkness

A coat hanger of a body trying to remember the coat that years before had fallen off