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Thursday, June 19, 2003

You LIve Your Life As If It's Real

You LIve Your Life As If It's Real

for some reason i was under the impression that the book [Ulysses by James Joyce] was deadly boring so i never even attempted it. not saying necessarily that this snip'll talk me into reading it. lol but i did learn something today. now i know my teacher wasn't kidding when he said this table set for "the dead"

A fat brown goose lay at one end of the table, and at the other end, on a bed of creased paper strewn with sprigs of parsley, lay a great ham, stripped of its outer skin and peppered over with crust crumbs, a neat paper frill round its shin, and beside this was a round of spiced beef. Between these rival ends ran parallel lines of side-dishes: two little minsters of jelly, red and yellow; a shallow dish full of blocks of blancmange and red jam, a large green leaf-shaped dish with a stalk-shaped handle, on which lay bunches of purple raisins and peeled almonds, a companion dish on which lay a solid rectangle of Smyrna figs, a dish of custard topped with grated nutmeg, a small bowl full of chocolates and sweets wrapped in gold and silver papers and a glass vase in which stood some tall celery stalks. In the centre of the table there stood, as sentries to a fruit-stand which upheld a pyramid of oranges and American apples, two squat old-fashioned decanters of cut glass, one containing port and the other dark sherry. On the closed square piano a pudding in a huge yellow dish lay in waiting, and behind it were three squads of bottles of stout and ale and minerals drawn up according to the colours of their uniforms, the first two black, with brown and red labels, the third and smallest squad white, with transverse green sashes.

was all about sex and not much else. learn something new every day. thanks again ray...:)
my comments didn't take but i have a blog so they'll get taken bygawd. lol

i'm so glad to feel better...now, to take five cats to be sterilized before it is too late...:)

- posted by barbara @ 6/19/2003 09:28:00 AM

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