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RSWells
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0 posted 2004-12-14 01:53 PM


George Orwell once said such language (war's) is "designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind."

There is a "theology" behind nuclear war planning, Colin Powell said. http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2002/8704.htm
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Chef Chaleureux tossed the empty pop-top
can short of the trash and noticed in its
retrieval how easily dented modern
containers are, constructed with only
enough metal to reach the kitchen shelves.

He picked up the ‘Le Sueur’s’
               “very young small
                  Early Peas”
as he kicked the back door closed against the draft.

He would miss the huge kitchen he’d occupied
these last few years. This would be the final meal
he’d supervise at the Springvale Nursing Home
in Youngstown for the well-to-do and long of tooth.

The tenants weren’t the reason for leaving,
though it did get old handling them with kid gloves,
but another institution realized he was
“worth his salt,” or en français, solde,
as his mentor, an ex- legionnaire, would call
their pay, from when the Romans paid armies with salt.

He embedded the peas into the coalition
of beets, carrots, asparagus and new potatoes
already boiling and using a mortar
and pestle mashed garlic cloves into paste,
then whisking egg yolks, drizzled in the measured
amount of extra-virgin olive oil as
the junges gemuse or young vegetables required.

He ruled the kitchen but not always the menu,
thus hors d'oeuvres would be caviar and baby swiss
with an assortment of crackers. Salad, summer
lettuce, cherry tomatoes and fresh shoots with
‘liberty’ dressing, long loaves of ‘liberty’ bread.

Veal and lamb would serve as entrées. The veal,
select dairy calves, milk fed, deemed unsuitable
for breeding, were cuts of loin eye, boneless
medallions and were fixed in the killbox of the
cutting board. It was hammer time, each piece lined
up for kinetic targeting of the meat mallet.  

The lamb, whole legs, had already been trimmed,
slit and garlic shrapnel slivered into the gaps.
sautéed jelly, lemon peel and juice, ginger root,
salt, mustard, and pepper would dress it for
la presentation was half the battle.

  
Chaleureux would now separate the yolks
from their surroundings for la sauce à Béarnaise
and instructed his assistant, a young, Black
unwed mother, to turn down the blue on blue
flame of the friendly fire to avoid granularity.

With a wave of her hand, deconflicting the airspace
over the stove, she did as ordered but, knowing
how many who’d gone before her had been burned,
always entered this red zone cautiously.

The chef, noticing the ‘liberty sour,’
made from Jingan cabbage, which needed but
55 days from planting to harvest, was boiling,
instructed the girl to calm its hot contact point
adding he didn’t want any collateral damage
which he always pronounced dommage, pity in French.

Entering the Great Room long after the meal,
that dark and musty place where youth appeared
only through the screaming TV, Chaleureux
was intercepted by the Director who wished
him well and surveying the residents said;

“Well I hope everyone is satisfied
now that they all have gas” to which the chef
replied “ Oui, a catastrophic success!”
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http://dpingles.ugr.es/lies/language_war.htm
  


[This message has been edited by RSWells (12-14-2004 04:39 PM).]

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Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09
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1 posted 2004-12-14 01:59 PM


very very impressive sir....extrremely well written.

The greatest beauty on earth, is
found in the hearts of those
who love....

RSWells
Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533

2 posted 2004-12-14 11:17 PM


Thank you Gentle Spirit for taking time to read and commenting so kindly.
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