except that it had quickly become warm , gained cognizance , and he had just had time to realize it was he , orris , and then everything had turned topsy-turvy like a secret door on its gimbal - a bookcase on one side , a chippendale dresser on the other , both fitting the ambience of the room perfectly - and it had been orris sitting behind the wheel of a 1952 bullet-nosed ford , orris wearing the brown double-breasted suit and the john penske tie , orris who was reaching down toward his crotch , not in pain but in slightly disgusted curiosity - orris who had , of course , never worn undershorts .