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What, then, sets apart the roman à clef of 1976? Hardly the quality of its malice. In the first installment of Answered Prayers, set at Manhattan's La Côte Basque restaurant during lunchtime, Capote was out to make his readers throw up while his characters ate. But he is merely a sniggering Boy Scout compared with Jonathan Swift, who, in A Tale of a Tub, had a character kneel in the street to pray, then void his bladder in the eyes of the passersby leaning over to investigate...
...literary effete of London. He was wearing his cape and single earing and when everybody sat down to dinner he refused to eat the regular course. Instead he began to talk excitedly and pick at a rose in the centerpiece with his fork. Before anybody could say anything he ate the entire rose. When Hemingway wrote of going to dinner with Pound, however, he was speaking not about Pound's minor eccentricities, but of the poet's developing world view of politics and economics...
...attending "Beast Barracks," the summer of rigorous training and hazing given to incoming plebes (a word derived from plebeians). Verr was subjected to a traditional form of harassment: upperclassmen ordered him not to put certain foods on his tray, or made him sit at attention while others ate. After going hungry for two days, Verr had tears in his eyes as he left the dining hall. When an upperclassman demanded, "Mister, what are you crying about?" Verr told a disjointed story about his parents' having been in an automobile accident. Verr's lie was discovered...
...only slightly overweight and considered himself reasonably fit. He ate and drank moderately, exercised often and did not smoke. But on a warm day last May, after only five minutes of racquetball, he suddenly became extremely short of breath. A burning sensation swept through his chest. Too exhausted to continue, he crouched on the ground trying to recover. Eight weeks later he was wheeled into an operating room for a coronary bypass...
...tests conducted last summer, striped bass, carp and other fish species were found to contain many times the allowed federal limit of 5 parts of PCBs per million. One eel was found to have 559.25 parts per million of the chemical-an amount so high that an adult who ate a 7 oz. portion would get 50% of his lifetime allowance of the substance in a single serving. Says Robert H. Boyle, a writer and longtime Hudson River fisherman: "Shopping in a fish market these days is like picking your way through a minefield...