his pointy nose hung down from his decaying gray skin , punctuated by this look of imperious despair , festooned by a patchwork combination of facial features that led one to the immediate conclusion that he had forced a shit sandwich down his own gullet at some point in the distant past and still wasnt sure , as it languished in stasis in his system , whether to digest the wretched thing or give in to his latent urge to spew it out into the nearest vacant receptacle .