Banqueting

Roles: host, guest, dish, table, portion, serving, appetite, etiquette

Formal communal dining with courses, portions, and protocols of service. As a source domain, banqueting encodes the relationship between what is offered and how one receives it: dishes arrive without the guest choosing their content or timing, and the guest’s task is to take what is appropriate and let the rest pass. This makes the frame productive for reasoning about situations where opportunities arrive on their own schedule, where greed disrupts the social fabric, and where grace consists in not grasping. The frame also encodes the host-guest asymmetry: the host controls the menu, the guest controls only their appetite and manners.

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