Two friends engage in a heated yet absurd argument over muffins while their romantic lives crumble around them. Jack is outraged by Algernon's deception and gluttony, while Algernon uses triviality and food as a defense mechanism against the gravity of their social ruin.
JACK: This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose?
ALGERNON: Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life.
JACK: Well, you’ve no right whatsoever to Bunbury here.
ALGERNON: That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywh
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