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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 > [log in to unmask] > www.proximity.webhop.net > www.myspace.com/poetjj > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/