Our hero, summarily recalled from
surfing season in Montevideo to es-
cort Betty Commilfaux to her annual
Rose Bowl lunch, had confined him-
self indoors to suppress highlights
tending to upstage her coiffure, on-
ly to marvel that a gridiron contest
pitting squads of fattened frogs a-
gainst flailing trolls in gold hats
(a sort of New World Bayreuth fes-
tival with billions in academic cor-
ruption and residuals on the line),
could divert anyone from her intri-
guingly matured St Émilions. Were
any of this interlude to waft its
way back to Punta del Este, he knew,
he'd have some explaining to do.
And then some.
ReplyDeleteI think jet lag must have played into the equation.
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