What had survived - maybe all that had survived of Trim - was Lair's sense of him? A catalog of impressions that arose from time to time, unbidden and often upsetting. From the sandy smell of his sandy hair to the locked grip of his muscles as they had wrestled in sensuous aggression - unwelcome nostalgia. Trim lived in Lair's heart like a full suit of clothes in a wardrobe, dress billiards maybe, hollow and real at once. The involuntary memory of the best of Trim's glinting virtues sometimes kicked up unquietable spasms of longing.

Out of Oz