Название: The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life
Автор: Andy Miller
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары
isbn: 9780007375257
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This rings true, doesn’t it? Now compare the fictional Arrowby with the historically verifiable figure of Pomiane on the same subject:
‘First of all, there are three kinds of guests: 1. Those one is fond of. 2. Those with whom one is obliged to mix. 3. Those whom one detests. For these three very different occasions, one would prepare, respectively, an excellent dinner, a banal meal, or nothing at all, since in the latter case one would buy something ready cooked … To make a dinner for people one can’t bear is to try and keep up with the Jones’s, as you say in English. Whatever you do, you are bound to be criticized, so it is better to buy ready cooked food and let the supplier be criticized instead.’
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