Dining alone
Posted by: Epicurean on: September 18, 2011
Watch out there’s a sociopath about …
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Table for one, but which one?
Tom celebrated by going to a Roman night club and ordering a superb dinner which he ate in elegant solitude at a candlelit table for two. He did not at all mind dining and going to the theatre alone. It gave him the opportunity to concentrate on being Dickie Greenleaf. He broke his bread as Dickie did, thrust his fork into his mouth with his left hand as Dickie did, gazed off at the other tables and at the dancers in such a profound and benevolent trance that the waiter had to speak to him a couple of times to get his attention.
