One character in this essay tells a long, embarrassing anecdote about covering his wife's nude body with a sombrero so aplumber can help her aftfter she is sucked into a toilet by a powerful sewage system, which turns out to be a terrible set-upfor a one-line joke.
One character in this essay tells a long, embarrassing anecdote about covering his wife's nude body with a sombrero so aplumber can help her aftfter she is sucked into a toilet by a powerful sewage system, which turns out to be a terrible set-upfor a one-line joke. In one scene in this essay the stuck-up Mona deceitfully tells a waiter that it's her birthday even thoughit's actually the birthday of her tablemate Alice. An essay by Frank Conroy is quoted throughout this work to explicate anattitude dubbed "pampering." This essay ends with the narrator going into a visionary trance during the performance of acruel hypnotist named Nigel Ellery. Its narrator attends a lecture given by Scott Peterson in the Rainbow Room and becomesinfatuated with the maid Petra while staying in Cabin 1009. This essay begins with the narrator waiting at Fort Lauderdaleairport to board the Zenith, which is renamed the Nadir in a footnote. It was originally published in Harper's as "ShippingOut." For 10 points, name this essay about a horrible seven-day cruise by David Foster Wallace.
One character in this essay tells a long, embarrassing anecdote about covering his wife's nude body with a sombrero so aplumber can help her aftfter she is sucked into a toilet by a powerful sewage system, which turns out to be a terrible set-upfor a one-line joke.
"A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"