“But Bazzana is conscious of dealing with an extraordinary individual, one whose extraordinariness was bound up with his mercuriality and multiplicity.”
“But he added that he'd always fancied himself mercurial, and mercuriality is hard to come by when you're playing the same character for 10 years straight.”
“Because the values, lifestyles and tendency to networked mercuriality of the new generation means that, if they started from scratch, they would not build the same things their grandfathers did.”
“There will always be in society certain persons who are mercuries of its approbation, and whose glance will at any time determine for the curious their standing in the world.”
“The Mercuries, exhausted by looking out of window, are reposing in the hall and hang their heavy heads, the gorgeous creatures, like overblown sunflowers.”