You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature and could be negotiated readily. Others had almost no curvature and you knew you'd be spending hours turning the corner. Great whopping-big planet-sized miseries.
The Corrections: A Novel (ed. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001) - ISBN: 9781429928618