Lox, fee free to make some Elmer Fudd jokes; everybody else does, including him, her, and me!

In the meantime, here are some brief but devastating descriptions by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, suitable for devouring straight, no chaser:

The cat is the animal to whom the Creator gave the biggest eye, the softest fur, the most supremely delicate nostrils, a mobile ear, an unrivaled paw and a curved claw borrowed from the rose-tree.

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... "

January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.