wivabef's great Literary Lunch Box

[hadassahchana[$]]

Here is a comment from a recent review by wivabef:

I like that! A literary lunch box thread. The Hunter S. Thompson lunch box would have a Wild Turkey thermos inside. Tom Wolfe's would be all white with a bright pink napkin in its pocket.

So, let's do it!

Take an author or a literary character and design a lunch box for him or her. For extra points, throw in a description of the meal included in this box.

Ok, I'll start:

The Ernest Hemingway lunch box will of course be made of the finest leather. Inside will be a large chunk of smoked venison and a Bowie knife with which to cut it up. It will be called 'The Moveable Feast' lunchbox...

Cindy

[kurt_messick]

Don't forget the Chateau Margaux thermos...

[wivabef]

The Gertrude Stein lunch box would simply be a bag. A brown bag. Brown and pleasant, brown as manilla envelopes often have them brown, brown, not with the yellow or the red or the chocolate brown of sun burned countries, but brown with the clear color laid flat on the light toned paper beneath, the plain, spare brown that makes it right to have been made with a recycled logo on your bottom, and not too abundant straight brown lines, lines that only later deepen themselves into brown from the straw yellow of a german fishwrapper.

[mjfrombuffalo[$]]

Helen Gurley Brown's lunchbox would be very skimpy, just a few pieces of cloth (but really nice cloth) held together with some fishnet, the better to show off her lunch (but not TOO much of her lunch...). She wouldn't have a thermos, just a martini glass (after all, you can always get some nice man out there to MAKE you your cocktail). The lunch bag would go with almost every outfit (after all, it's a mark of style to mix and match accessories). Best of all, it would have all the tools one would need to fix a run in a stocking, go from office to evening, and make a man happy in bed.

mj

[murasaki]

Edgar Allan Poe's lunchbox would be black lacquer with a mother-of-pearl inlay of a raven. The interior would be lined with purple velvet. It would contain a bottle of whiskey (the cheap stuff), some opium and a lock of Annie Richmond's hair.

--naomi

[realtraveller]

Wouldn't Poe's also contain a small cask of amontillado?

[murasaki]

Of course! But you have to be careful opening casks around Poe. He likes to store bodies there.

--naomi

[Joubert[$]]

Flannery O'Connor's lunchbox would include a biscuit left over from breakfast and a small apple. There would be a thermos of tea or some heavy duty caffeine along with a small painkiller. The box would actually be a small hamper and no doubt include a linen napkin handed down from Grandma.

[realtraveller]

Garrison Keillor's lunchbox would have a picture of Lake Wobegon on the front with a sticker that said "compliments of the Sons of Knute and Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery." Inside would be a wedge of the tuna hotdish from the Chatterbox Cafe, some huge, ripe home-grown tomatoes, canned beets and maybe a beer and a bump from the Side Track Tap.