You know what I like?
The ancient Greeks.
Egyptians and Romans.
Alexander the Great,
Julius Caesar, Cleopatra,
the Trojan Horse,
gladiators, chariot races,
spectacular murders and suicides,
the eruption of Vesuvius,
temples, amphitheaters, arenas,
mosaics, frescoes, baths.
I remember those things
as if I learned them yesterday.
But then the Middles Ages...
But then the Middle Ages?
Fuc*k that.
A blip of a disgusting mess.
The Renaissance,
the beginning of the end,
the modern age, just look at us.
And American history,
what is that?
I remember studying
in high school
and praying for the British to win.
Praying for the Native Americans
to slaughter the Pilgrims,
for the whole kit and caboodle
to go up in smoke,
both sides in the Civil War.
And then both World Wars
and, uh, and Korea and Vietnam
and Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan.
Who needs that?
They don't. They don't care.
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That restaurant's a joke.
Anyway, it's ridiculous.
- It sounds super-exclusive
and sexy and food art.
Like going to France.
- During the German occupation, maybe.
( The Dinner )