He drank across the vertical stripes of his glass.
The way I see it there are basically two types of people; those who break the Passover matzo in total disrespect to its shape and then continue to attempt and spread the uneven pieces with their favorite spread cursing their brittle, fragile consistency.
Others, like me, look at these rectangles, cardboard like culinary creations, and recognize the challenge. How one can spend long satisfying hours practicing (on whole pieces of matzo) chewing carefully along the imbedded dotted lines, meticulously progressing from line to line without spraying crumbs and broken pieces all around.
This ties in with something Henry James says at the start of 'The Bostonians' along the lines of: there are two kinds of people--those who take things hard and those who take things easy. Obviously, your first type takes it hard, finds it hard, and leaves things a mess. The other kind of person, who takes things easy, is, in your telling, pretty much crazed....
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