always someone who would have been described as tall and gangly of frame , his body now appeared to have grown even more angular and bony since the start of his period of employment in the airports darker recesses and , with his wide-apart , slightly starey eyes looking like a cave-dwelling salamaders blind , white optics , and the perpetual - and increasingly grubby - bandage , that he wore around his head , now more as a makeshift bandana to contain his greasy and unkempt hair than any longer as a serviceable dressing of wounds sustained in conflict , he looked like the sort of character that any sane-thinking person would cross the road to avoid walking alongside .