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...After an hour and a half of flipping out, I finally convinced them to leave. But just as we were about to finally get some rest, one roommate jumped a pizza delivery guy and got us a free pie. I gave up on trying to stop...
...days is merely to indicate how out of it one is. My father's generation seemed to be surprised by everything--a TV set, automatic shift, snow--and to be enchanted by the smallest event. "A martini!" my father would say, as if he had not mixed it himself. "Pie a la mode!"--with a lusty accent on "mode," as if he were recalling a village in France and not a scoop of ice cream...
...though never ostentatious, New York City restaurant. In dresses, hats, jackets and ties, we would trudge through the heavy, reluctant revolving door and enter the place of civilization and ceremony. "This way, doctor." This way to the weighted silver plate and the thick linen tablecloths and napkins, and the pie a la mode...
...summer job at a chicken-packing factory; we had to fold up plucked chickens and pack them in cellophane trays. I also did a day working in a slaughterhouse--it was horrible. Some of what I saw there did get through to the pie machine in the film...
...Imagine that bacteria ate apple pie in order to live. If you have millions of good bacteria gobbling down huge pieces of the pie, there isn't much left for the harmful bacteria. But when we use all of these antibacterial soaps and lotions, we're killing off the good bacteria, and leaving more of the pie for the dangerous ones...