Ugh.

grime regunge?

Have you read other books by David Mitchell?

^What she said. It was just pretentious until that last sentence. That last sentence pushed it into pretentiously weird territory.

I know, I was ignoring all the purple prose until I came to the earwax, and then I thought, even with all the weird things that preceded this part (clones, secret files, fish tank care, the mention of all sorts of made up stuff), it is this mention of earwax that made the least sense of all.