Here's
another quotation from POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRS OF BRAS CUBAS, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated by Margaret Jull Costa and Robin Patterson: "There was a chicken wing on his plate, and he was dissecting it with philosophical serenity." When I read that, I thought of
Kent! And how much
he loves to eat chicken! And, specifically, the time
he went to a restaurant and ordered a single chicken wing.