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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

Little Transubstantiation Prayer

     “Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.”
          — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826

Just as I cannot imagine the taste of food without an ancillary seasoning of teeth I worry that I am never experiencing reality except perhaps drawing near to it while sleeping.

Since I cannot remember my dreams every morning I feel a sort of desperate faith in the belief that I did dream; I MUST have; I NEEDS MUST have: defensively washing the dishes after a meal I’m determined to remember toothlessly.

“Le fumer n’est pas une émancipation mais une soumission…” via www.lemonde.fr

“Le fumer n’est pas une émancipation mais une soumission…”

via www.lemonde.fr

Memo from Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s director of animation, Richard Williams, to all those working within the animation department.

Memo from Who Framed Roger Rabbit’s director of animation, Richard Williams, to all those working within the animation department.

But to talk to those behind the sidewalks and the benches is to see these ubiquitous objects as powerful tools of social planning, tearing down walls between rich and poor, helping a city bereft of an identity develop a sense of place and ownership.

But to talk to those behind the sidewalks and the benches is to see these ubiquitous objects as powerful tools of social planning, tearing down walls between rich and poor, helping a city bereft of an identity develop a sense of place and ownership.

The oldest reference to be found is from Juvenal from the late First Century of the Christian Era – rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno. With apologies to the women reading this, Juvenal railed that finding a perfect wife is akin to finding a black swan (a rare bird). Shakespeare may well have used the term too – but by his day in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the black swan was used to describe something that was impossible. Although the expression is not found in his works (perhaps he preferred to invent his own) the black swan represented that which was impossible (or nearly so) and therefore simply could not be.

The oldest reference to be found is from Juvenal from the late First Century of the Christian Era – rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno. With apologies to the women reading this, Juvenal railed that finding a perfect wife is akin to finding a black swan (a rare bird). Shakespeare may well have used the term too – but by his day in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the black swan was used to describe something that was impossible. Although the expression is not found in his works (perhaps he preferred to invent his own) the black swan represented that which was impossible (or nearly so) and therefore simply could not be.