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.
大都会俱乐部(Metropolitan Club)位于第五大道第60街截口,是一座有着曼哈顿庄重风格的建筑。该死的开支。这是J.P.摩根(J.P. Morgan)1894年委托纽约最才华横溢的建筑师斯坦福·怀特(Stanford White)为他建造这座私人绅士会所时所说的话。1月下旬的某个星期一晚上,建筑的内部,寥寥数位会员流连在织着字母的红色地毯上,不过现在时间还早,才刚过七点。而这正是玛丽莲·沃斯·莎凡特(Marilyn vos Savant)喜欢出没的时刻。