Fw: [Sca-cooks] FW: Turkish Recipe

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Laura C. Minnick:
>At 02:33 AM 5/16/2005, you wrote:
>>  >
>>>  Hey, I want to know who dubbed him 'America's best-selling poet'- if only
>>>  so I can grab up some Whitman or Dickinson or Frost or Ginsburg or Hughes
>>>  or Sandburg or... and SHOVE IT DOWN THEIR THROAT!
>>
>>A person named Brian Bruya, in both cases, interestingly enough.
>>
>>However, 'best-selling' depends on the time period you choose to observe.
>>Maybe Rumi outsold the American classics for 16 days in early December 2003?
>
>Bah.
>I looked Brian Bruya up- a PhD candidate in Philosophy at University 
>of Hawaii, almost all of his work centered on Asian 
>mystic/philosophers, and most of that in translating and editing 
>Chinese works. Looks like Doubleday published a bunch of his 
>translations (seem to be student editions) in the mid-late 90s. His 
>language background is Modern Standard Chinese, Classical Chinese 
>(Cantonese? Mandarin? huh?), and Japanese (written). A variety of 
>Taoist and Marxist themes in his publication record, but nothing on 
>a Sufi mystic of indeterminate age.
>
>But he must be doing something right, because Amazon is 
>commissioning him to write reviews, for what that's worth. 
>*However*, I don't see anything anywhere in Mr Bruya's CV that would 
>indicate that he speaks or reads Turkish or knows anything about 
>Sufi culture or about a certain variety of nightshade that they may 
>or may not have put in their food before 1492. So there ya go- back 
>to those rotten tomatoes.

For some reason all this reminds me of a line in the 80's Broadway 
musical, "A Day In Hollywood / A Night In The Ukraine" (whose 
original cast album I'll now have to listen to, thank-yew-very-much), 
in which the pseudo-Marx-Brothers movie, "A Night In The Ukraine" is 
described as being "taken from the pages of 'The Bear,' by Anton 
Chekov, Russia's top gag writer!"

Adamantius
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"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