Mario's cartridge: Tennis and the Feral Prodigy (p. 175)
Say something like I’m terribly sorry I can’t come out to see 8½ revived on a wall-size Cambridge Celluloid Festival viewer on Friday, Kimberly, or Daphne
Context
The extramural date the prodigy must refuse is, of course, a film — Fellini's 8½, the same picture Madame Psychosis is "positively poisonous" about two scenes later (053, p. 185). Boston's film culture is the water these kids swim past.