* * * * every christmas , i used to go to wesleys christmas party at his parents apartment on central park west , and surrounded by the jet set and original picassos and dalis and waiters carrying silver trays piled high with mini-lamb chops and hot buttered rum in pewter mugs i would think it was possible , it was possible in my own future to live like this , to be easy going and to know what chartreuse means , and to say things like cicero in the normal course of conversation .