MDDM Ch. 23 Summary, Notes - Pizza

[Otto]

jbor:
>
> Maire makes an impromptu anchovy pizza in order to cover a *faux pas* and
> maintain his anonymity. It is "arguably the first British pizza" ever, and
> all seem to enjoy eating "those pointed things". (236)
>

 "She enjoyed the notion that New York was home, and that she missed it, but
in fact the only thing she missed was pizza. And not just any old pizza, but
the sort of pizza they brought to your door if you phoned them up and asked
them to. That was the only real pizza. Pizza that you had to go out and sit
at a table staring at red paper napkins for wasn't real pizza however much
extra pepperoni and anchovy they put on it.
  London was the place she liked living in most, apart, of course, from the
pizza problem, which drove her crazy. Why would no one deliver pizza? Why
did no one understand that it was fundamental to the whole nature of pizza
that it arrived at your front door in a hot cardboard box?"
(Douglas Adams [1952-2001], "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul", London
1988, p. 3)

For some reason it seems to have to be an anchovy pizza in literary circles.

Otto