stevestory
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| Quote (stevestory @ July 25 2008,02:30) | | Quote (Crabby Appleton @ July 25 2008,01:03) | I just looked around on the web and found a report that MD harvests are down 70% since 1990?!
Crabby |
It's been a few years since I read Consider the Lobster, but IIRC lobsters were so plentiful 100 years ago that they were considered poor man's food, and fed to prisoners and farm animals. |
Rereading Consider the Lobster. I have mixed feelings. The first essay, about the porn industry, is amusing. The last essay, Host, is enough to permanently wreck your enjoyment of DFW's footnote-heavy style. The Dostoevsky essay inserts these cheap ethical questions willi-nilli throughout the text, in a very disruptive way. So I'm not sure I should have reread it.
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