English Literature - Prose and Drama

English Literature
English Literature - Prose and Drama

"The smell of the melted butter tickled my nostrils as the nostrils of Johovah were tickled by the burned offerings of the virtuous semites". The smell of which cuisine is being referred in the above line from the essay 'The Luncheon" ?


Options:

  1. Salmon
  2. Caviare
  3. Asparagus
  4. Mutton chop

Right Answer: Asparagus

In W. Somerset Maugham’s humorous essay ‘The Luncheon’, the struggling young writer watches in horror as his guest, who claims never to eat more than one thing for luncheon, orders one costly item after another. The giant asparagus arrives swimming in melted butter, and the narrator confesses that its smell tickled his nostrils as the nostrils of Jehovah were tickled by the burnt offerings of the virtuous Semites. The biblical comparison is deliberately grand and heightens the comedy of a man who is calculating whether he can pay the bill.

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