better sort

“I think you’d be hard pressed to find a better sort of culinary representation of that period than this dish,” Carbone said.

Among its odds and ends is a brief cameo from Elijah Wood, whose answer to the problem of the death penalty is to study to be a better sort of executioner; several people wake up tiny, without explanation or elaboration; and we are treated to episodes of a nihilistic cartoon show called “Parking Tickets” that can cause “existential meltdown.”

The tomatoes fared better — sort of.

A better sort of “alternative knowledge” is the knowledge imparted by art, at least at its most ambitious: the pulse-racing insight into our human condition we suddenly perceive when forms exceed themselves and feel like truth.

“We just found a better sort of angle on the protagonist, on the overall theme and on the storytelling technique as well in that one swoop,” he says.