TRAYS OF FOOD CRASH TO THE FLOOR as WAITERS, pass out.
ART LOVERS drop forks, go face down in their pasta salad.

1. — (egyptian sculpture)
2. Rembrandt, The Syndics of the Clothsmakers Guild
3. Edgar Degas, Two Ballerinas
4. Douglas Volk, Abraham Lincoln
5. Archibald Willard, The Spirit of ’76 (Yankee Doodle)
6. Edward Hopper, Approaching A City
7. — (generic roman bust)
8. Rembrandt self-portrait
9. — (Degas, ballerina)
10. — (two girls, Renoir?)
11. Vermeer, The Woman Wearing Pearls
12. Thomas Gainsborough, The Blue Boy
13. Gilbert Stuart, George Washington
14. Francis Bacon, Head Surrounded by Sides of Beef

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Goodbye, Columbus (1959) · · ·
Letting Go (1962) ·
When She Was Good (1967) ·
Portnoy’s Complaint (1969) · ·
Our Gang (1971) ·
The Breast (1972) ·
The Great American Novel (1973) · ·
My Life as a Man (1974) · ·
Reading Myself and Others (1975) ·
The Professor of Desire (1977) ·
The Ghost Writer (1979) · ·
Zuckerman Unbound (1981) ·
The Anatomy Lesson (1984) · ·
The Prague Orgy (1985) ·
The Counterlife (1987) ·
The Facts (1988)
Deception (1990) ·
Patrimony (1991) ·
Operation Shylock (1993)
Sabbath’s Theater (1995) ·
American Pastoral (1/3) (1997) ·
I Married a Communist (2/3) (1998) ·
The Human Stain (3/3) (2000) ·
The Dying Animal (2001)
The Plot Against America (2004) ·
Everyman (2006) ·
Exit Ghost (2007)
Indignation (2008)
The Humbling (2009)
+ The Cambridge Companion to Philip Roth ·

Jesus purring on the couch.