Rather inspired by Murakami's "First Person Singular" and so I'll take the time to tell you about Mark.
Now Mark was an odd one, I met him via a friend who I squatted with briefly. Tall - 6'3" or 6'4", with a long black braided ponytail that hung to his waist, square chin, dark swart features, clothing to match, fashionable trench coat and knee-high leather boots.
I'm 21 and in London and to go for a walk with Mark was to be the wingman - and I'm not particularly used to being the second fiddle, but it was apparent as the ladies visibly swooned when we passed that it wasn't over me.
If you imagined the best version of Heathcliff from "Wuthering Heights", or the "hot" English Seducer in a Penny Dreadful, it would be Mark.
Mark was Australian, from somewhere small town in the bush, he didn't like to talk about his family or his childhood. He didn't like or get along with his father. He worked as a waiter in "Le Pelican" down in the West End. Fancy. His interests were largely occult, he claimed to be in constant communion with the dead, and so we had a few lively conversations around what that must have been like, first impressions in London and all, especially considering how the dead so outnumber the living.
A curious thing, he had married - on paper, for immigration reasons - this friend from Australia with dual citizenship. She had a young child - 2 or 3, not his. I think her name was Leona. And they lived together - as man and wife in most regards, except for the most intimate, which he passed on because he was currently involved with Kate Bush. It was an Astral Relationship, they never met in person, but at night when they were dreaming...well, spicy, spicy. It would stay on the Astral Plane because she didn't want to mess up her successful recording career with rumors and everything.
They lived with me for a time, in the squat, it got pretty tiresome, Mark & his Wizardry, the child, an undisciplined mess, and his wife constantly on the prowl for some sort of satisfaction...
After he moved out I didn't hear of him for a few years, then word came he was working as a model, in such and such avant-garde film, he was dating so-and-so supermodel.
I never doubted it, he was a larger than life figure, and his dating - I suspect, as with a lot of larger-than-life people, was sexless, he, despite his superstar good looks seemed oblivious to that aspect of his being...
I'd be curious to know where he is now...