I hope this wasn't Christmas Day lunch, Chris.
Neighbours invited us to theirs - 'if you don't mind Greek food, and all our
Greek relatives', said George and Soteria.
My wife who has whooping-cough, poor thing, stayed home in bed, and I went
next door and gorged on their backyard spit-roast, large prawns, smoked
salmon, asparagus, etc., and nodded through much amiable Greek conversation,
some of which they interpreted for me.
Then I took home a plate-load to tempt my bed-ridden wife.
I found her in the kitchen in her nightie eating popcorn, and managed to get
her to eat one prawn.
Whooping-cough! They say the coughing fit can crack a rib.
And a week has gone by with still the bad symptoms...
It is rife, they say, because anti-vaccination idiots have persuaded many
families against the jab.
Max in midsummer Melbourne
On 28/12/10 5:08 PM, "Chris Jones" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> (This is a hard one to get right, considering Spinoza wrote; we do not
> yet know what a human body can do and as Nietzsche above all understood,
> physical illnesses of the human body as active forces.)
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> he sat alone eating lunch
> 2 boiled eggs, thinly sliced,
> balsamic vinegar, mustard and oil
> dressed salad with a glass
> of multiple gold awarded wine
> the colour of vitamin B urine
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