letter bomb

[Victor Steinbok]

I just stumbled across another, particularly atrocious one.

New York Magazine
Feb 17, 1997
Hal Rubenstein
The Anti-Elaine's, p. 61
> Similarly, buried in a banana split is a scoop of berry sorbet, whose
> acidity *acts like a letter bomb*, exploding what should be a happy mush.

     VS-)

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