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"It is several years since this dinner, and I remember best the taste of persimmons soaked in muscadet, and the kindness of a famous man to someone who would admit to being young, but only hesitantly to being a poet." @athenek

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The Paris Review
In Warsaw - The Paris Review
People often talk about learning experiences and, in the days after the salmon-based fiasco, I wondered about this... What do we learn from an experience like this?
The significance of these moments, when we're sharing meals with a group of people, often with a certain sense of occasion, have a particular type of comedy and drama that is often hard to distill or decipher.
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