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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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12.11.02


You will need: a clove or two of garlic, sea salt, tinned anchovy fillets in oil (you can of course use anchovy paste or a bottled sauce, but the tinned taste less of motor oil and funk), Dijon mustard, Worcestershire, an egg (coddled for ten seconds in boiling water), half a lemon, olive oil, a chunk of Parmesan (of sufficient freshness that the cheese curls rather than crumbles when grated), black pepper, a wooden salad bowl, a whisk, and salad tongs or whatever.

{vivid Caesar(Salad) recipe from Textism, whose epigram takes the cake, hands down.}

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