Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (528) lyrics

The only other familiar faces in the crowd were Seth and Merrie Paulsen, Walter's old neighbors on Barrier Street, looking thirty years older than everybody else except Walter himself. Seth was very taken with Lalitha, could not stop staring at her, and overruled Merrie's pleas of tiredness to insist on a late, post-battle supper at Taste of Thailand. It became a real noseynessfest, as Seth prodded Walter for inside dope on Joey and Connie's now notorious marriage, on Patty's whereabouts, on the precise history of Walter and Lalitha's relationship, and on the circumstances behind Walter's spanking in the New York Times ("God, you looked bad in that"), and Merrie yawned and arranged her face in resignation.