Comments on: WALLACE http://lastbender.com/blogh/wallace/ The Website of Author Jon Frankel Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:43:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: jonfrankel http://lastbender.com/blogh/wallace/comment-page-1/#comment-107 jonfrankel Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:25:18 +0000 http://lastbender.com/?p=138#comment-107 I suppose it was difficult to tell which end was up. I suppose it was difficult to tell which end was up.

]]> By: Miette http://lastbender.com/blogh/wallace/comment-page-1/#comment-106 Miette Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:32:03 +0000 http://lastbender.com/?p=138#comment-106 What possesses one to go near forbidden fruit? It was to impress a boy, of course? We ate it after a birthday dinner of fish stew, as discordant a dessert as one could imagine. And yes, the onions, the baby shit, the menses, the brakes (with parapraxis as digestif, apparently) were all present, bookending its trek down the pipes. But for a split second right at the back of the palette, it all changed into a grandmotherly bosom into which the nose is buried in a springtime meadow, with custard and lilac and freshcut grass and other delicacies majestic. Just for a second. Then it went back to shite. But it worked... I mean, I got laid. What possesses one to go near forbidden fruit? It was to impress a boy, of course?

We ate it after a birthday dinner of fish stew, as discordant a dessert as one could imagine. And yes, the onions, the baby shit, the menses, the brakes (with parapraxis as digestif, apparently) were all present, bookending its trek down the pipes. But for a split second right at the back of the palette, it all changed into a grandmotherly bosom into which the nose is buried in a springtime meadow, with custard and lilac and freshcut grass and other delicacies majestic. Just for a second. Then it went back to shite. But it worked… I mean, I got laid.

]]> By: jonfrankel http://lastbender.com/blogh/wallace/comment-page-1/#comment-105 jonfrankel Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:30:34 +0000 http://lastbender.com/?p=138#comment-105 It is a prurient fruit, armed like an iron maiden. I am not a partisan of roguefort or other Bleugh Cheeses but it has been pointed out that the Noble durian is the Gorgonzola of the East. My only brush with eating it was a Durian cookie I consumed in Thailand. I was too polite to decline it, and yet even in this innocuous package I could taste notes of rotten onion and baby shit. Absoultely fresh it is meant to have a cascading effect on the tongue. But what I really want to know is, what possessed you to walk around with it in your rucksack for so long (a yucksack by the end) and did you know what you were getting into or did you find its forbidding face so enticing that, one way or another, you couldn't refuse? It is a prurient fruit, armed like an iron maiden. I am not a partisan of roguefort or other Bleugh Cheeses but it has been pointed out that the Noble durian is the Gorgonzola of the East. My only brush with eating it was a Durian cookie I consumed in Thailand. I was too polite to decline it, and yet even in this innocuous package I could taste notes of rotten onion and baby shit. Absoultely fresh it is meant to have a cascading effect on the tongue. But what I really want to know is, what possessed you to walk around with it in your rucksack for so long (a yucksack by the end) and did you know what you were getting into or did you find its forbidding face so enticing that, one way or another, you couldn’t refuse?

]]> By: Miette http://lastbender.com/blogh/wallace/comment-page-1/#comment-104 Miette Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:01:49 +0000 http://lastbender.com/?p=138#comment-104 Of course, the Durian is a perfectly adapted species, and may outlast the cockroach. I have a backpack that contained a Chinatown-procured Durian for a couple of hours seven years ago, and which still reeks of a sick conflation of menses, hot-breaks-on-cement, and a three-week-old catbox. And this is just the discharge from the outer shell... I won't tell you what it took to remove the last traces from the inner regions of oral cavities. The Durian was designed to kill and frankly, I don't have any idea how the rest of us are still at it. Of course, the Durian is a perfectly adapted species, and may outlast the cockroach. I have a backpack that contained a Chinatown-procured Durian for a couple of hours seven years ago, and which still reeks of a sick conflation of menses, hot-breaks-on-cement, and a three-week-old catbox. And this is just the discharge from the outer shell… I won’t tell you what it took to remove the last traces from the inner regions of oral cavities. The Durian was designed to kill and frankly, I don’t have any idea how the rest of us are still at it.

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