Howard Jacobson - In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best ...

Howard Jacobson Zitate

In anticipation of a meal - supposing we are with the ideal companion at the best table in the perfect restaurant - we might indeed postpone sadness. And maybe even halfway through, we will remain in tolerably high spirits, with dessert still to come. But as we near the end of eating, we begin to feel anticipatory twinges of anticlimax.

Howard Jacobson

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In Erwartung einer Mahlzeit - vorausgesetzt, wir sind mit dem idealen Begleiter am besten Tisch im perfekten Restaurant - könnten wir die Traurigkeit verschieben. Und vielleicht sogar auf halbem Weg bleiben wir in ziemlich guter Stimmung, und der Nachtisch wird noch kommen. Aber als wir uns dem Ende des Essens nähern, verspüren wir antiklimaxähnliche Tendenzen.

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