Now that you’ve sampled a well-crafted line from an Anthony Lane review, here’s an excerpt from a restaurant review in a Santa Fe-based magazine called Local Flavor:
“Twelve perfect green beans on a plate, dressed with lemon and pepper, are like little children just learning how to clap their hands. You just want to pick them up and eat them, one at a time.”
What, exactly, is in those green beans to inspire such a hallucinogenic simile?
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And why was the plate dressed in lemon and pepper? Talk about a writer who likes to dangle those modifiers.
Well, gotta go eat some children …