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If there is a God, he takes very long lunches.

— Andrew Benson  ·  Peter's Friends

An empty armchair with a napkin and a half-eaten plate of pasta and a glass beside it.
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A wry joke on the idea of God: if there is one, he must be out at very long lunches, which would explain why the world seems unattended. It's a light, cynical way of complaining about absence.

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