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...first visit to Nouvelle Lune, a plate of Poisson Gotcel ($8.50) piqued my interest in Haitian cuisine: I was greeted with an entire red snapper—head and tail intact??€”doused in the signature red sauce with onions and green peppers. A gracious serving of red beans, rice and two thick, crisp, fried plantains accompanied the meal. The fish was cooked to a tender perfection, while the sauce, mild yet zesty, complemented the meat wonderfully. The fried plantains, infinitely more textured than the thin, supermarket, potato-chip variety, boasted alternating layers of crispiness, saltiness and tender plantain...
...structure remained intact??€”just significantly bent—and the Quaker faithful eventually headed home, back to the dorms where they could further bask in their drunken glee and eventually sober up and realize they still go to school in Philadelphia. And the goalpost remained at an angle, a pathetic but enduring symbol of triumph...
Perhaps earlier generations—their ingenuousness intact??€”were blinder to cynicism’s protective powers. In 1969, the editor-in-chief of my mother’s high school yearbook wrote: “We have chosen as the theme of this yearbook, The Adventures of Don Quixote, a novel built around a man whose life was not unlike ours. Much dissatisfied, he too dedicated himself to finding a better world of higher ideals and purer men, although he was believed a senile lunatic...