The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #96356 Message #1884799
Posted By: Elmer Fudd
13-Nov-06 - 12:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Novel preferences 1st or 3rd?
Subject: RE: BS: Novel preferences 1st or 3rd?
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.