Remains Silent
“KNOPF NEW YORK 2005 LK: In memoriam to my father, Benjamin Benincasa, and to the real Filomena Manfreda, my mother, Faye Benincasa.
MB: To Eli and Ruby, our future. No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley THERE WERE LOTS of things that drove her nuts: crowds, waiting in line, cheap shoes, lawyers without ethics but at the top of the list was being late for court. Manny hated it, absolutely hated... it. If she got to the courthouse looking like an escaped mental patient, as she sometimes did, she took time to pull herself together. No way shed appear before a judge unless she was the quintessence of cool. After a visit to the ladies room, her makeup would be flawless; every strand of flaming red hair would be in place. The line of her smooth stockings would lead to the very latest Vecchio stiletto heels; her documents would be in order, her arguments honed and ready for attack.MoreLess
MB: To Eli and Ruby, our future. No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley THERE WERE LOTS of things that drove her nuts: crowds, waiting in line, cheap shoes, lawyers without ethics but at the top of the list was being late for court. Manny hated it, absolutely hated... it. If she got to the courthouse looking like an escaped mental patient, as she sometimes did, she took time to pull herself together. No way shed appear before a judge unless she was the quintessence of cool. After a visit to the ladies room, her makeup would be flawless; every strand of flaming red hair would be in place. The line of her smooth stockings would lead to the very latest Vecchio stiletto heels; her documents would be in order, her arguments honed and ready for attack.MoreLess
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