{"id":191,"date":"2007-02-01T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T09:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/02\/the-jewish-prince-routine.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:13:26","slug":"the-jewish-prince-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2007\/02\/the-jewish-prince-routine.html","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish Prince Routine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crown\"<\/a> N<\/strong>ora Ephron’s “Heartburn<\/span>” came highly recommended. Although, the novel on the whoel was just about OK, Ephron had moments where she was just so bitingly fierce and funny at the same time, it made me yearn for more. It makes perfect sense to call hers a rapier wit. I believe she got most of her ammunition from divorcing her ex-husband(s), the most recent of whom apparently had an affair behind her back.<\/p>\n

In this book, she couples the story of her heroine, who’s a cookbook author, with her loser husband who’s got a wife and mistress and wants to keep both, and her recipes, homilies and just candid observations. And just so I don’t forget these passages which make me laugh everytime I read them, no matter that I pretty much know what it’s about etc., I am going to archive some of the choicest on a 2 part post.<\/p>\n

The first is dedicated to the crowning jewel of the book : The Jewish Prince routine. This routine is one by the main protagonist Rachel Samstat, and is about ways in which to recognize if the man before you is indeed a prince. In this passage, Ephron does all womankind a big service, since amazingly most cultures have their own princes, and the ability to recognize one is indeed a true gift. Replace Jewish with Indian, or American or Brazilian, and it would still be true.<\/p>\n

Well, I dither no more, and present to you (in part):<\/p>\n

Rachel Samstat\u2019s Jewish Prince Routine
<\/span><\/strong>
You know what a Jewish prince is, don\u2019t you ?
(Cocks her eyebrow)
<\/em>If you don\u2019t, there\u2019s an easy way to recognize one. A simple sentence. \u201cWhere\u2019s the butter?\u201d
(A long pause here, because the laugh starts slowly and build)
<\/em>Okay. We all know where the butter is, don\u2019t we?
(A little smile)
<\/em>The butter is in the refrigerator.
(Beat)
<\/em>The butter is in the refrigerator in the little compartment in the door marked \u201cButter\u201d.
(Beat)<\/em>
But the Jewish prince doesn\u2019t mean \u201cWhere\u2019s the butter?\u201d He means \u201cGet me the butter.\u201d He\u2019s too clever to say \u201cGet me\u201d so he says \u201cWhere\u2019s.\u201d
(Beat)<\/em>
And if you say to him \u2013
(Shouting)<\/em>
\u201cin the refrigerator\u201d\u2014
(Resume normal voice)<\/em>
And he goes to look, an interesting thing happens, a medical phenomenon that has not been sufficiently remarked upon.
(Beat)
<\/em>The effect of the refrigerator light on the male cornea.
(Beat)
<\/em>Blindness.
(a long beat)
<\/em>\u201cI don\u2019t see it anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn” came highly recommended. Although, the novel on the whoel was just about OK, Ephron had moments where she was just so bitingly fierce and funny at the same time, it made me yearn for more. It makes perfect sense to call hers a rapier wit. I believe she got most of her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,4,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-recommended","category-review","category-women"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn” came highly recommended. Although, the novel on the whoel was just about OK, Ephron had moments where she was just so bitingly fierce and funny at the same time, it made me yearn for more. It makes perfect sense to call hers a rapier wit. I believe she got most of her…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}