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Interesting restaurants and reasonable prices are a rarity around Harvard, but both can be found in Grendel...
Myth in the modern novel is reworked into absurd comedy, and plot retreats upon itself. Characters are puppets whose strings lead you to different parts of the author's pysche. John Gardner reveled in all this chaos in his earlier novels. In Grendel, Beowulf is just another ridiculous hero in front of a bunch of snivelling fools when we get the classic epic from the monster's point of view. And in The Sunlight Dialogues, self-parody pops up in thoughts such as "She realized, briefly, that she was merely a character in an endless, meaningless novel, then forgot." Veracity...
...training program at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York but quit in three months because he felt it was too constraining. He came to Boston to study music, worked for McGovern in Illinois, came back to Cambridge to work as a bartender, and finally ended up washing dishes at Grendel's Den. Then he went to Francis D. Fisher '47, director of the OGCP, with a proposal...
...Grendel's serves a European fare, either in their small dining room or outside on the patio. For lunch, the restaurant offers a buffet with two choices--"soup and salad" for $1.50 or "the works" for $2.25. The dinner menu includes shish-ke-bob variations and an eggplant dish, and the desserts are worth more than the price. A pleasant place where a meal costs under...