Excellent! And so right! "... fancying himself as a platinum-feathered swan.."

Indeed. Fancying.

Also the foot-thing... There's a bit in "Bewitchments" where Thiede's feet are described, indicating pearly-pink nail polish of some description, and naturally, you can't imagine The Aghama doing his own toenails! with one of those little foam toe-separators stuck between his toes. Someonehar else must have been down there... ;-)