Even when no one is listening (or reading, or watching) , every outing is a bravura performance, because you as the creator are happy. Perhaps even ecstatic.
Those who prefer their espionage thrillers lean and taut may be put off by this hulking tome, but like the stories in Marius's bravura trilogy Your Face Tomorrow, Thomas Nevinson is a different kind of spy novel.
So when you have a bravura speech where someone goes, let's for goodness sake be normal, and then you have this — I'm allowed to say it because again, I'm also nasal — this nasal weird speech.