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- From: u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk (N.M. Humphries)
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- Subject: Re: Pizza...
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 13:38:28 GMT
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- DAulignac D D (dauldb@solb1.essex.ac.uk) wrote:
- > Hi!
-
- > I've just started to read 'The long dark tea-time of the soul' from
- > Douggie and there is something that irritates me.
- > In Chapter one he explains that Kate often gets depressed on
- > english soil because the people are to stupid to realise that pizza
- > is something that has to be delivered and then eaten in front of the TV
- > (a situation that fortunately has been relived in our latter days).
- > Now, Dirk's kitchen, who lives in North London, is descrived in
- > Chapter 3:
-
- > Like most of the rooms in Dirk's house it was large, looming and
- > utterly dishellved. It simply sneered at anybody's attempt to tidy it,
- > sneered at them and brushed them aside like one of the small pile of dead
- > and disheartened flies that lay beneath the window, on top of a pile of
- > old pizza boxes.
- > ^^^^^
-
- > Now, one might think that those boxes were from frozen pizza packages, but
- > as one recalls there was a full-scale war going on between Dirk and his
- > cleaning maid over the non-fridge-opening. So if the fridge was not separated
- > into freezer and cooling compartment, and since Duggie describes it as
- > looking like a monolith what proves this theory, it would have been impossible
- > for Dirk to store the frozen pizza unless he would have a separate freezer
- > (i.e. appart from the fridge) and this would-be-important-fact is not
- > mentioned in the description of the kitchen.
- > So Dirk does NOT store the pizza. Does he go to the store and
- > prepares it imediately after buying it? How can it be explained that
- > Dirk has pizza boxes lying on the fridge? Does he have a maniatic obsession
- > for the collection of pizza boxes, the author does not inform us of in his else
- > so detailed description of characters? Does he steal them from his neighbours
- > trashcans?
- > I'm stuck and I'll be grateful for any sugestions to where the
- > solution of this tricky problem, that doesn't let me sleep until 3.00 AM, lies.
-
- Simple, Dirk goes to a place that sells pizzas that you can either eat at the
- place or take it home to eat.
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