[Sca-cooks] A Quote for Anahita
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Fri Dec 17 12:43:53 PST 2004
Also sprach Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise:
> >
>> O dear god I love MFKF. I think I have all of her books, even the
>> really horrible attempts at fiction. What a way with words. I wish that
>> she had had a happier life, but I still give thanks that she shared it
>> with us anyway.
>>
>
>Oh good. I picked up a paperback edition of _The Art of Eating_
>and I'd love to palm it off on someone. Anyone want it?
>
>(Yes it turns out that I am not an MFK Fisher fan.)
I feel better now; I thought I was the only one. I thought I was
going to have to attend meetings with a bunch of strangers and stand
up and say, "Hi, my name is Phil and I can't stand M.F.K. Fisher's
writing..."
Adamantius, thinking of becoming a sponsor
--
"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, "Confessions", 1782
"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry
Holt, 07/29/04
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