#482 Foes- Lorrie Moore
Imagine being at a high-class function, and not only does
the person you’re talking to seem oblivious to the sarcastic way you are
talking but also seems to be diametrically opposite of your core political
leanings. You try to bring the tense moments around with humor but they either
don’t take the lifeline or they have no desire to be pleasant.
“Now would not be the time to speak of timing. It would be
unlucky to speak of luck. Could he speak of people having things they didn’t
deserve, in a room full of such people?”
Baker is an author of a recent George Washington biography
and has been invited by a literary magazine to be at their fundraiser. His job
as a famous writer is to sit at the table and charm the guests that are paying
$500 a plate. He gets stuck in this heated discussion with a self-proclaimed
“Evil Lobbyist.” Sounds like loads of fun.
I did find this description of Washington DC to be pretty
on-point: “An ostentatious company town built on a marsh—a mammoth, pompous
chit-ridden motor vehicle department run by gladiators. High-level clerks on
the take, their heads full of unsound sound bites and falsified recall.”
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