Somehow the kid managed a disconnect and will eat just about anything. But his kid brother, who has no such Jewish scruples, is a vegan. Go figure. -------------- Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/ "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey." --Francine du Plessix Gray On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote: > When I was ten or eleven, my father took me on a tour of > one of the slaughterhouses on Chicago's South Side, on the > theory that I ought to know where my breakfast came from. > Didn't turn me off beef or bacon, though, as a summer on > an upstate NYS farm turned me off chicken and eggs for > a year or so when I was sixteen. > > > "Reality cannot be copywrited." > --David Shields > > Hal > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > > [log in to unmask] > http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com > http://www.hamiltonstone.org > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/> > http://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/home > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/> > *Mainly Black<https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1i_JGJ_FqQldEnUq7cwjV8giYykz_tsGbTkC2EkAP3IM&hl=en&pli=1#> > , **Obras Públicas<https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/halvard-johnson-obras-publicas> > ; **The Perfection of Mozart's Third Eye and Other > Sonnets<http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets> > ;* > *Organ Harvest with Entrance of > Clones<http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1> > ; **Tango Bouquet<https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATDp6rzKkBkhZGZwand2cHdfOWc1Mnh3Zw&hl=en> > ; **Theory of Harmony<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf> > ; * > ***Rapsodie espagnole<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf> > ; **Guide to the Tokyo > Subway<http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3> > ; **The Sonnet Project<https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf> > ; * > ***G(e)nome <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter > Journey <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>; > **Eclipse<http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html> > ; **The Dance of the Red Swan <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html>; > * > *Transparencies & Projections <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html> > * > > > > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Ken Wolman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> I've never gone there. I'm not sure I would want to. Probably nothing could >> have prepared a 16-year-old kid for what he's have to see. >> >> Ken >> -------------- >> Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/ >> >> "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey." >> --Francine du Plessix Gray >> >> On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:25 PM, Douglas Barbour wrote: >> >>> Yes, & neatly caught Ken. And welcome back. >>> >>> After visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau, I couldnt say anything either (& still >> cant, really). >>> >>> Doug >>> On 2011-06-01, at 10:43 AM, Ken Wolman wrote: >>> >>>> My Son Would Not Talk >>>> >>>> He complained about the feral cats on tables >>>> in Tel Aviv cafes, but was dumbstruck only about Terezin. >>>> In the winter before Senior year there was a >>>> sponsored trip to Israel that stopped in the >>>> gingerbread Czech holding station before the train >>>> entered hell, but all Jake would say >>>> when he got home was that it was impossibly cold >>>> and then he refused to say anymore. >>>> >>>> KW--6/1/1011 >>>> >>>> -------------- >>>> Ken Wolman http://awfulrowing.wordpress.com/ >>>> >>>> "All writers are hunters, and parents are the most available prey." >>>> --Francine du Plessix Gray >>>> >>> >>> Douglas Barbour >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ >>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ >>> >>> Latest books: >>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy) >>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664 >>> Wednesdays' >>> >> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html >>> >>> Transforming once reasonable human beings into gullible idiots is one of >> the biggest businesses we have. >>> >>> Charles Simic >>