The Metropolitan Club, on Fifth Avenue at 60th street, is a palazzo in the mighty Manhattan style. Damn the expense. That's what J.P. Morgan is supposed to have said when he commissioned Stanford White, the city's most flamboyant architect, to build him a private gentleman's club in 1894. Inside, on a Monday evening in late January, only a few members drifted over the red, monogrammed carpets, but it was still early, only a little after seven. This, however, is when Marilyn vos Savant likes to show up.
大都會俱樂部(Metropolitan Club)位于第五大道第60街截口,是一座有著曼哈頓莊重風格的建筑。該死的開支。這是J.P.摩根(J.P. Morgan)1894年委托紐約最才華橫溢的建筑師斯坦福·懷特(Stanford White)為他建造這座私人紳士會所時所說的話。1月下旬的某個星期一晚上,建筑的內部,寥寥數位會員流連在織著字母的紅色地毯上,不過現在時間還早,才剛過七點。而這正是瑪麗蓮·沃斯·莎凡特(Marilyn vos Savant)喜歡出沒的時刻。