it rings a bell... either that or something like it
Janet
On 11/12/2007, andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Full of potential! Have you read Plume by Henri Michaux? A restaurant
> scene with a chop on a plate - and the exaggerated and threatening
> bureaucracy that then appears around it ... Written around 1936, I
> seem to remember.
>
> Andrew
>
> On 11/12/2007, Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > A chocolate cake dilemma
> >
> > It was the best chocolate cake... the best cake Kim had ever eaten.
> > - Mmm, this is really special. I could just about live on this.
> > - Well, they said, we've got about a 50-year supply. We can offer it
> > exclusively to you, but...
> > - But?
> > - But you must agree never to eat any other cake during that time. No
> carrot
> > cake, no fruit cake, no banana cake, no lemon cake, no coffee cake, and
> most
> > importantly no other chocolate cakes. You can think about them (although
> > we'd rather you didn't); you can look at them in shop windows (but you
> might
> > be happier staying home); you can look at recipes online (but don't let
> us
> > find out). But you can't eat them. If you do, if you have even one slice
> of
> > another cake, there will be no more of this extraordinary chocolate cake
> for
> > you, and we will offer our remaining supply to another client, if we can
> > find one. ...Well?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Janet Jackson
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> >
>
>
> --
> Andrew
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>
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Janet Jackson
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