Who he is: the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast, the devout unwinder, the rigid wife-attended evening ritual

texture · UNDATED standing habit → 1 April YDAU

• When: standing condition as of the YDAU present; he turns thirty-seven on Thursday 2 April YDAU
• What: A one-half-ethnic-Arab Canadian, under Saudi diplomatic immunity as special ear-nose-throat consultant to the personal physician of Prince Q——— (the Saudi Minister of Home Entertainment), migrating with the legation between InterLace's Phoenix and Boston hubs; his expertise is "the maxillofacial consequences of imbalances in intestinal flora," and he is known as "the DeBakey of maxillofacial yeast." A "more than averagely devout" follower of the sufism of Pir Valayat, he takes neither kif nor distilled spirits and "must unwind without chemical aid" — via a rigid nightly ritual in which his black-veiled wife wordlessly attends him (loosening clothing, dimming lights, fitting a molded dinner tray over his head, keeping his imperial beard free of tray-detritus) as he "sits and watches and eats and watches" in a special electronic recliner until he passes into sleep and silk-analog bedding emerges from the appliance's sides. Wednesdays break the pattern: the wife has her Arab Women's Advanced League tennis night, and the Prince's Töblerone-driven thrush often keeps the attaché on call at the Back Bay Hilton.