Thursday 28 August 2008

'a posteriori gourmandise'


'his servant brought him a nourishing enema compounded with peptone... his predilection for the artificial had... attained its supreme fulfilment! A man could hardly go further; nourishment thus absorbed was surely the last aberration from the natural that could be committed'

J.K. Huysmans, Against the Grain (A Rebours) (1884) Ch.15

(exultant Cartman from southparkstudios.com)

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