2010/11/22 New York
Chocolate
Waiter
This afternoon I had coffee with a friend in La Maison du Chocolat on Madion Avenue.
The waiter, a man in his early sixties, reminded my friend of Anthony Hopkins in the movie “The Remains of the Day” based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.
To me the waiter was more like the butler in “Sunset Boulevard” – brilliantly played by Erich von Stroheim.
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I would love to have a personal butler at my disposal. Someone to get me organised. Yes, that could do it.
Waiters are people with lots of patience. My perfect job since I can not live of writing.
Everybody is entitled to his own personal Jeeves.
Until my own Jeeves arrives I am happy collecting P.G. Wodehouse books.
Until my own Jeeves arrives I am happy collecting P.G. Wodehouse books.
Be careful what you wish for.
Remember The Servant (1963) (Pinter/Losey).
Remember The Servant (1963) (Pinter/Losey).
There are not a lot of places where you find aged servants, comes with the job, maybe there is a hausse now because of the crisis. I dont know since the crisis havent been to restaurants a lot. When you see an old waiter you automatically see him as butlers. That is in a restaurant, not at Wendy´s. Guess it makes the food taste better.
The treatment of these persons depends on if you see him as you did or, say, seeing yourself as a British colonial in relationship to his slave.
The treatment of these persons depends on if you see him as you did or, say, seeing yourself as a British colonial in relationship to his slave.
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