Don't have access to wild mushrooms, never mind, and don't worry about the garlic and shallots, just make sure you have a pig butt and that good ol' thymus gland from a cow and let's get to work. After you've boiled that gland, saute it with Hobbes' observation that our perception of objects "is Fancy, the same waking, that dreaming." Yes, don't use all of it though, we'll want to save some for that Salad Borges we'll be working up later this month. Also, make sure to use the small yet powerfully suggestive "I say not this, as disapproving the use of Universities: but because I am to speak hereafter of their office in a Common-wealth." Good advice: next time you are around "insignificant speech" at your local college or university just ask yourself--"What good is this to the Common-wealth?" Keep in mind also my dear readers, that all of these recipes are only to be digested according to their office in the Common-wealth, or as we are calling it, the American Colossus. But what of that rump roast? After you have drowned the rump in a couple of bottles of Chimay, then you need to grate Gargantua's genealogy making sure that you cover the rump with as much detritus as you can. Remember: don't get sqeaumish about dead family members--cheese, wine and so on are the gifts of lovely decay; just think what your dead relatives might afford! Yes indeed, bits of a throat that have soaked in a resolve not to test whether you are awake or not will certainly help you down the bits of rum braised in all those bits of mothers, fathers, uncles, aunts, cousins you never were sure what to do with--until now!
Remember Pantagruelizing is the same waking or dreaming when drunk, hung-over or depressed sitting in front of the television on a Sunday morning with a bloody mary and the comedically banal Wolf Blitzer.
Coming Sunday: Quotes from Cioran and my Bloody Mary recipe.
Monday: What the United States, Great Britain, France and Israel may learn from reading the Iliad.
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Speaking of Fancy, here is a key passage to include in an updated course in Rhetoric:
"The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.'"
(Ron Suskind on an anonymous source, New York Times Magazine, Oct 17 2004)
By the way, I have heard Texasyank endorse this technique.
Well marked Captain Langston. Next time yuh see texasyank, besides slappin' him upside the head and askin' him "creatin' realities, yuh think that's somethin' new, and do yuh think just because yuh made something up it won't come back and carve up yur ass (Furies--Aieeeeee!)?" offer him this morsel from "The Whiteness of the Whale" . . . "So that all deified Nature absolutely paints like the harlot, whose allurements cover nothing but the charnel-house within." Of course in Baghdad, you take your life into your own hands if you try and go to the charnel-house and retrieve the body of a family member. So I believe I'm calling "history's actors" whores. Yep. I am.
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