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Sea Scallops Grilled in Butter and Rum
In my time in the kitchens I’ve rubbed elbows with all manner of folk, the varied sort that inhabit that tumultuous underworld of the line cook. They are a calico mixture, even within themselves, sometimes part poet and philosopher, as well as bits of hooligan and delinquent. But it may surprise you that a good number of these gutter chefs know a thing or two about fine cooking, and it is by their
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“In his delicate state he rushed to the cupboard searching something to settle his nerves only to find his larder empty. Feeling a fit of panic, he grabbed at the empty bottles littered about the room, tipping them up seeking some last dregs, drops to quench his nervous thirst. It was at this vulnerable moment that he saw her, standing in the darkness watching him, the red ember of her cigarette rhythmically swallowed by the shadows. He froze.”
― The Fell Hound of Adversity
― The Fell Hound of Adversity
“In my life I have been a fool with liquor and a wise man with horses. I was born on a horse, or just off one anyway, for my mother died in a fall a month before she was due to be light of me, and they cut me from her there. Which was the last time I was throwed, except by whiskey.”
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“Cairo: You have always, i must say, a smooth explanation ready.
Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?”
― The Maltese Falcon
Spade: What do you want me to do? Learn to stutter?”
― The Maltese Falcon
“In his delicate state he rushed to the cupboard searching something to settle his nerves only to find his larder empty. Feeling a fit of panic, he grabbed at the empty bottles littered about the room, tipping them up seeking some last dregs, drops to quench his nervous thirst. It was at this vulnerable moment that he saw her, standing in the darkness watching him, the red ember of her cigarette rhythmically swallowed by the shadows. He froze.”
― The Fell Hound of Adversity
― The Fell Hound of Adversity
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I read Dostoyevsky mostly I think in my late thirties and early forties. I think I read them in order, but probably not on purpose. I had a very hard time with Devils; and had to give-up twice before finally mastering it.As much as I agree with you about books being different at different
times in our lives. I would go even further - in my own experience
and say the more I read the better reader I become; and certain projects which were probably unattainable before become more
accessible as I mature as a reader.
There is a scene, I'm sure you are familiar with it, where the drunken pheasant mercilessly beats the suffering horse to the amusement of his friends. What I like about the scene is it's horribleness: I hate it. I hate Dostoyevsky for writing it and for tricking me into reading it. It's so sad: cruelty: put there intentionally by the author to terrorize me and make me suffer.
And so I think it's pretty cool that the skill of the author can have such a powerful effect on my imagination.
