Sauerkraut, nothing better than eaten at the market in Vienna with your
hands out of the wooden barrel in front of a Otto Wagner's superb Succession
building, my colleague and me in a coldest day. No students saw us, they
didn't even notice the stench... it must have been windy!
Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com
http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome
The aim of the poet is to awaken emotions in the soul, not to gather
admirers.
Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Weiss" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: the news from space
> Titan, the moon of Saturn from which eurospace has been beaming back info,
> is said to have oceans of liquid methane and an atmosphere largely
composed
> of the gassy version of same. No one has commented on the likely smell,
but
> the scientists have been saying that conditions on earth may have been
> similar before the appearance of life. Which is to say that our ancestors
> emerged from a great fart, or maybe a bowl of sauerkraut. I've long
> suspected as much.
>
> Mark
>
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