A SOIREE AT THE DZYGA WHIRLYGIG CAFÉ
Nicholas received a call from Nadya on his cell phone just as he was leaving the university after an English class he had taught there. He was teaching a course on language through film and had just shown the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding to rousing success. The students couldn’t get enough of it and wanted to see it again. While they got a lot of the physical and situational humor, they did miss quite a bit of the linguistic play, so that’s what he ended up explaining to them the most.
Nadya said to him quite coyly when she reached him by cell: “A mutual friend is here who’d like to see you.” He could hear her laughing, but she wouldn’t tell him who it was. “We’re already at Dzyga. It’ll be a surprise for you.”
“I’ll be right over,” he said, but two
