Something is perfect
Does "is perhaps perfect" in the first line o the following text mean "is perhaps meaningful"?

Context:

Richard Wentworth’s late arrival on this day, Friday 29 June 2007, is perhaps perfect, then. Without realising it the urban theatre of happenstance and antagonism, in which we are all performers in some capacity, is already under way. The artist’s delay, we are informed, is down to the discovery of two massive car bombs in the Piccadilly Circus/Haymarket area.

Question

Something is perfect
Does "is perhaps perfect" in the first line o the following text mean "is perhaps meaningful"?

Context:

Richard Wentworth’s late arrival on this day, Friday 29 June 2007, is perhaps perfect, then. Without realising it the urban theatre of happenstance and antagonism, in which we are all performers in some capacity, is already under way. The artist’s delay, we are informed, is down to the discovery of two massive car bombs in the Piccadilly Circus/Haymarket area.

Answer

Hi, I would have rather read also the previous part (it is perfect THEN ... >> to what?)

If you want others to expect you, a late arrival can be as "Meanigful" as a silence can be.

In this case, "Meaningful" is a "Voluntary action".

But the delay is said to be due to "two car bombs" -- therefore this is not a "voluntary action"

So this is not properly "meaningful": this is rather "an unwanted fortuitous coincidence" which has "important effects".

Answer

I think here it means "ironic" or "fitting"

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