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Absent Friends - a dinner party

To read the story, move around the table, course after course.
If music is the brandy of the damned, does that mean that brandy is the music of the blessed?

Stephen

 Armagnac, at the ordinary three-star level, is as superior to average Cognac, in my view, as wholewheat bread is to white-sliced;...

Gerard

 Cognac is the wine-drinker's brandy; armagnac is the brandy-drinker's brandy

Matt
Cherry Chocolate Crème Brûlée

So this is table-talk.

We may have moved to another table, comfy chairs, people always seem to want to do that; but north south east and west we have the great quaternity (a word I made up for trinity plus one, then checked, and it's right) of Armagnac, coffee, chocolates and petit fours...

and a click on the dish yields the conversation

... and a click on the dish yields the conversation.
  Turn down an empty glass for Micky

Micky