Clue: it's not about the food
I don’t like to boast, but, when I take it into my head, I can throw dinner parties the way Zeus used to throw lightning bolts.
Who wants to order a taxi both ways for that kind of evening? At a very good dinner party, there is no such thing as the unsayable, for the simple reason that everything may be contradicted on the spot. Shot down. People can talk and be talked round. Persuaded. Also, in the days before it was illegal for human beings to make passes, it was quite intriguing to watch people openly flirting through the haze of candlelight.
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