"The tripes were copious, as you understand, and so delicious that everyone was licking his fingers for them." Ah, tripe. Nothing like intestines stuffed with offal. Certainly what allowed Gargantua to be born such a healthy boy was his mother's outsized appetitie for tripe. But you may say to yourself, "Hey LeviathanBoy, where can I find meself some tripe so I can grow big and strong like Gargantua? Who will be a mother to me and serve tripe?"
Who's the perfect mother? I nominate William Kristol.
For instance, here is a lovely piece of tripe from the tripe-master himself, William Kristol of the Weekly Standard: "What drives so many Democrats crazy about Lieberman is not simply his support for the Iraq war. It's that he's unashamedly pro-American." Now only a small amount of rhetorical analysis reveals that Chef Kristol is offering on today's menu the classic, small intestine implicit linking of anti-war and anti-American. Of course, another juicy tidbit in this recipe from the lower regions is the assumption that Democrats are ashamed of America. And what makes this an award-winning combination of waste products served with a parsley garnish is that these two sentences (which really should be one) appear in an article belittling Rummy for not having a winning hand, scolds Bush mildly for not knowing what a winning hand is but still praising that according to all x-rays his heart is in the right place, and attacks Democrats (read Anti-Americans) for not having a plan. Oh that William Kristol! Of course, nowhere does he reveal his military genius, but that's exactly his point. He's not about rational support for unexamined biases, this man is after a steaming plate of dark stuff. Mr. William Kristol, one of the great parodists of our time, and a fine maker of tripe.
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Kristol does tend to be flip. That's what makes him more fun to watch than Stephanopolous on television. By the way, is tripe kosher? Is there not a bit of counter-rhetoric going on here? Doesn't the suggestion that the nourishing mother of the Leviathan-Gargantua is the chief public spokesperson for neoconservatism also suggest by shorthand a whole worldview that is not to be considered in its premises or implications?
Hobbes, at least, would be no friend to the enterprise of sorting all this out by open public discourse. He compares such an endeavor to playing tennis in a wheelbarrow.
from Chapter XXV, "Of Counsel":
"To conclude, who is there that so far approves far approves the taking of counsel from a great assembly of counsellors, that wisheth for, or would accept of their pains, when there is a question of marrying his children, disposing of his lands, governing his household, or managing his private estate, especially if there be amongst them such as wish not his prosperity? A man that doth his business by the help of many prudent counsellors, with every one consulting apart in his proper element, does it best; as he that useth able seconds at tennis play, placed in their proper stations. He does next best that useth his own judgement only; as he that has no second at all. But he that is carried up and down to his business in a framed counsel, which cannot move but by the plurality of consenting opinions, the execution whereof is commonly, out of envy or interest, retarded by the part dissenting, does it worst of all, and like one that is carried to the ball, though by good players, yet in a wheelbarrow, or other frame, heavy of itself, and retarded by the also by the inconcurrent judgements and endeavours of them that drive it; and so much the more, as they be more that set their hands to it; and most of all, when there is one or more amongst them that desire to have him lose. And though it be true that many eyes see more than one, yet it is not to be understood of many counsellors, but then only when the final resolution is in one in one man. Otherwise, because many eyes see the same thing in diverse lines, and are apt to look asquint towards their private benefit; they that desire not to miss their mark, though they look about with two eyes, yet they never aim but with one: and therefore no great popular Commonwealth was ever kept up, but either by a foreign enemy that united them; or by the reputation of some one eminent man amongst them; or by the secret counsel of a few; or by the mutual fear of equal factions; and not by the open consultations of the assembly."
Ah, Mr. Starbuck, I see you have the bridge!
Bon Appetit!
0 kosher salt
3/4 pound honeycomb tripe
2 Tbsp. COLAVITA extra virgin olive oil
2 medium leeks, cleaned, sliced thin
2 small carrots, peeled, trimmed and sliced thin
2 celery ribs with leaves, trimmed and sliced thin
6 cups meat or chicken broth
1 russet potato (about 8 ounces), peeled and quartered
3 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
Freshly ground black pepper
Grated Romano cheese
Crostini
Onto the tennis in a wheelbarrow, which I believe Robert Frost would sanction as long as it was played with a net; yes as our friend in Plato Mr. Socrates so acutely or obtusely argues one should find the expert when it's a matter of horses, which possibly means there are experts for horse-faced rational creatures such as Houyhnhnms which of course there would be (as opposed to the Yahoos), and in that case I assume those who are blogging on this space are horse-faced lovers of tripe.
But Chapter XXV, sir, I am still reeling from the opening sentence of the Introduction.
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Scroll down about three posts for the Kristol bit.
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