“Yet to look at [Mucho Maas] now, in the twilit living room, gliding like a large bird in an updraft toward the sweating shakerful of booze, smiling out of his fat vortex ring’s center, you’d think all was flat calm, gold, serene.” (CoL49, ch. 1) What is his fat vortex ring? Sent from an iPhone; pls xcse typos.