How many of the prigs on this thread would have been willing to delay their own dinners till after the One got through his recitation? You wouldn’t be pulling up to the table till 10 or later. The hell with that. I’m with Ginsburg on this: start the evening off with a couple of cocktails and some wine with an early dinner to make the occasion bearable. So she fell asleep. BFD.
I could not agree more, you hit the nail square on the head.