The Wisdom of Perversity
“At her request, they were denuded of Hollandaise sauce. Brian watched her decapitate two, then spear their severed heads. “You eat the tips last,” Brian’s Irish peasant-stock father had instructed him forty years ago when he took ten-year-old Brian out for a grown-up dinner at a faux elegant French restaurant in Greenwich Village, just the two of them, newly divorced Dad and confused son. “They’re the best part, so you leave them for the end.” Veronica was Hollywood Royalty. She had been educat...ed, all movie fans knew, at the finest boarding schools in Europe, exiled from home by the multiple divorces and marriages of her movie-star mother and hard-drinking director-father. So Brian watched in surprise while she ate the delicate heads first. He longed to excuse himself and immediately call Danny Moran, now in failing health, to deliver this scandalous news: an expensive international upbringing had somehow resulted in Veronica’s being woefully ignorant of proper asparagus consumption.MoreLess
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