It seems to me we have discussed that on another thread but dont remember where.
Is Mesopotamia interesting to you?
Sturgis wrote:Why is it that Spendius often posts without asking a question if this is truly a Questions Game?
Because he just happens to be a cider soaked sponge of ill repute for making his own rules up, as he meanders through the passageways of life on A2K especially.
The egotistical self satisfied actions of a sot are well preserved in this ancient monument of primeval breeding. The consanguineous inborn attributes expose themselves akin to the withered penis of a hobo sauntering along the tracks of a St Louis goods-yard in search of a locomotive to take him to Alabama, where he has heard the streets are paved with bottles of Johnny Walker and Jack Daniels. His two best friends and associates.
There are two questions there and as I am now wary of how much my efforts are scrutinised I am not sure which to answer and I don't wish to be made a fool of a second time by a professional disciplinarian in front of such a discerning audience as is to be found on this thread.
Do you squeeze lemon on your sole?
Only if it's Dover.
The main function of lemon is to make you screw your eyes up, nonchalantly! Do you enjoy tripe my dear tyke?
I am forced to do as there is no alternative.
Do you know any?
No.
Is there any alternative to tripe on this thread?
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em:
Tripe Cooked in White Wine recipe
ingredients
2 1/2 lb (1.1 kg) honeycomb tripe
1 pig's trotter, chopped into 6-8 pieces
2 3/4 cups (21 fl oz) 600 ml dry white wine
1/2 pt (280 ml) water
1 onion, peeled and sliced
2 tbsp olive_ oil 2 cloves
1/4 tsp ground allspice
1 tsp ground coriander seeds
4 cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced
3 or 4 pieces of sun-dried tomato, cut into strips) or 3 fresh ripe tomatoes, peeled, seeded and quartered
salt and pepper
to serve:
2 tbsp finely chopped parsley
grated zest of a lemon
method
1. Rinse the tripe, dry it well and cut it into squares.
2. put the pig's trotter in a small saucepan with the wine and water, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 3-4 hours.
3. When you drain the pig's trotter, keep the stock.
4. Then prepare the rest of the dish. In a heavy-based pan, fry the onion in the olive oil until golden brown, add the spices and fry them for 3-4 minutes.
5. Add the tripe and garlic to the pan and turn up the heat to evaporate all the moisture from the tripe.
6. Add the tomatoes, the pig's trotter and about 1/2 pt (280 ml) of the stock. Cover and simmer gently for 30-40 minutes, adding more liquid as necessary.
7. Transfer the tripe and pig's trotter to a serving dish. Reduce the liquid to a rich gravy. Season to taste and pour over the tripe.
Sprinkle with the parsley and lemon zest.
I'm not sure if I could stomach it, how about you?!
No, I have never liked the smell of tripe and haven't got as far as tasting it. My son is about to live in a hall of residence in Paris, and I'm assured they serve tripe as one of the student meals there !
However, do you like other offal such as kidneys or liver?
Cue for famous quote-
"Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowl."
Isn't that nice?
Yes, but odd to specify fowl, as their inner organs are mostly small and unobtrusive; chicken livers I suppose.
Joyce also said 'Come forth, Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.' Do you think this sort of humour inspired Monty Python?
It should have.It inspires me.Among other things of course.
BTW-for the uninitiated, the line is the first sentence of Ulysses.
Ever read Finnegan?(That's a right hoot and no mistake.)
I'm not a fan of the awful, ahem, I mean offal myself.
Thank goodness, Spendi-, you weren't quoting Eddie Gein, infamous American killer cannibal. Ugh!
Here's a question: If faced with a dire situation, could you cannibalize another to survive?
Yes I could. I am not saying it would be easy; however, in a life and death situation (The Donner Party for example) I would be more than willing to chomp on another persons body parts.
Does this then make me a bad person?
Yes, I've read Finnigan, but I must readi-it-again.
What did you most like about it?
It's daftness.I can only read a few lines at once.I keep my copy by my lounger and if the news is a bit negative I just open it anywhere and start reading.
"Sir Tristram,violer d'amores,fr' over the short sea,had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his peninsolate war:nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens Country's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tautauf thuartpeatrick:not yet,though all's fair in vanessy,were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe."
And the preceding sentence is so beautiful I can remember where I was when I first read it.It still makes me shiver.
Do you think he flew too near to the sun?
Do you? Spendi-, are you trying to kill this thread?
Now, where were we?
You asked me what I most like about dear Jimmie.
Did I fail to answer your question?
No not at all. I was just looking for a thought-provoking question to stimulate conversation. As I remember I could only read that one a couple of lines at a time! It was like reading a book full of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll: `Twas brillig, and the slithy toves ...'
Do you prefer novels to poetryand do you have favorite poems/poets?
That is unanswerable Dev.I don't think the two fit into neat categories.
I prefer anything which exposes to view ideas which are both useful and new to me.
There's an anecdote about Joyce which you may have heard.He was sat hunched over his typewriter
staring at the paper.Someone said to him in mock surprise-"What's the matter James,can you not think of the words?" to which he replied-"Oh-I have the words-it's the order to put them in that's the problem."
Even at my amateur level this is a problem.I am often misunderstood on these threads simply because the reader either won't or can't engage with the inflections and rhythms in my head when I compose a line.Sometimes the very opposite meaning of what I intended is taken or,more usually,a meaning which suits the reader's purpose.
The masculinity has gone from literature I'm afraid.
The modern sensibility is to sublimate the animal nature of sex into sentimental intellectualisms and Sunday School aesthetics under the promptings of what Frank Harris called "girl readers" (and now viewers).Poetry (art in general) is anything which restores manly honesty to depictions of life of which sex is an integral part as is money.Failing such a definition everything is art.Thus my favourite "poets" are easily identified.Homer,who styles Helen of Troy as "Argive Helen" as in "Gasworks Lil",Ovid,Rabelais,Shakespeare,Cervantes,Stendahl,
Flaubert,Haggard,Mailer,Dylan and oh so many more.Basically the stuff Dylan meant when he said-"Look out kid,they keep it all hid."
Is that a reasonable answer to an impossible question?
