[lit-ideas] Re: Studies In Chicken and Whisky
- From: wokshevs@xxxxxx
- To: "palma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <palma@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 18:00:32 -0230
I avoid the peaty perils of Skye whenever possible.
Although, at the right time, for the right reason, with the right persons, and
in the right way, I may accept an offer of a bottle of Talisker. But it ends
there. Russians tend to be from the Speyside of the street, so to speak.
Apriori esteriness forever,
Walter O.
P.S. Next time, ask for permission before treatinmg posts to our list as public
property. I'm sure Duke would not be pleased, nor would Kant giben his
conception of "public reason." Explanation would be appreciated. Justification,
even more so.
Quoting "palma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <palma@xxxxxxxx>:
> what si your view of Skye?
>
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 wokshevs@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Just one minor comment for the sake of maintaining the arches of
> civilization.
> > (It's Victoria Day today in Canada, and thus I offer the following
> thoughts, in
> > keeping with a cosmopolitan sense of what unites us in our common humanity
> and
> > dignity - be we Quebecers or not.)
> >
> > Now, regarding those arches and David R's rant below, along with his
> posting of
> > May 12 ("Whisky a la ..."): There is one reference made in both these
> texts
> > that is morally and epistemically worthy of comment. (I don't mean to
> suggest,
> > of course, that there are no other references in these texts of similar
> > status.) The matter under discussion here is The Macallan, 12 yr. old.
> >
> > No, this malt - like the Toronto Maple leafs - does not perform well on
> ice.
> > Of course, no single malt scotch whiskey should ever be mixed with ice.
> This is
> > not a categorical imperative, mind you, but rather a hypothetical one:
> >
> > If you wish to
> > experience comprehensively the possible nosing and tasting notes of a
> single
> > malt, keep the ice in the freezer. All you need is a splash of water, a
> very
> > small splash, for every dram (one and one quarter oz.) of malt.
> >
> > To determine whether you have added too much or too little water, do NOT
> taste
> > the malt. For if you put too little water into your sniffer - we all do
> have
> > our sniffers, of course - a taste will debilitate your taste buds beyond
> > redemption for the evening ... indeed, to the point where you might as
> well
> > replace the whiskey on its alphabeticized position on the shelf and take
> out a
> > bottle of Jack Daniels from the baement.
> > (Apologies to the bourbonites of the world ... but, after all ....)
> >
> > Moving right along: Stick your nose into the glass .... further, further
> ....
> > that's it. No, that's too far. You'll drown that way. There, that's the
> right
> > distance, just on top of the liquid. Now breathe in through your nose. Take
> a
> > lo-o-o-ong, de-e-e-ep breath. If you begin to experience a discomforting,
> > perhaps even slightly painful, sensation at the back of your nose, you
> know
> > that you have not added sufficient water to your dram. Proceed
> accordingly.
> >
> > Under idealized epistemic conditions of discourse, you should be able to
> come to
> > an agreement with your libational interlocutors on the following
> generalizable
> > tastes: Some sherry. Some honey. Flowery notes (you decide). A nicely
> rounded
> > finish, but nothing to write home about. If the colour amber pleases you,
> go
> > with that ethical conception of the pleasing.
> >
> > Thus ends the lesson.
> >
> > (Wirchlich! The things I do for civilization and the ideals of a
> > liberal education! I trust that our friendly neighborhood stingray, along
> with
> > Newman, Pelikan and Reading appreciate my efforts. Not that I have
> anything
> > against chicken stock, mind you. I catch a cold, too, every once in
> awhile.)
> >
> > Imagine: Socrates never had a taste of the good stuff. Diotima must have
> been
> > one hell of a great libational spirit!
> >
> > Sir Walter of the Rock
> > Chair,
> > Department of Speyside Malts and Hermeneutic Phenomenology
> > University of the Famous Grouse
> > Edinburgh, Scotland
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > > Critics may be unanimous that no verse which appears on this list has
> > > more than an ounce of good sense in it, and that all of it is
> > > certifiably green in the meaning department, but if we stipulate
> > > this, where does that leave the poor sod who gets attacked for
> > > mentioning that he puts ice in his whisky? I mean he's sitting there
> > > quietly on the group W bench, just sitting there with Arlo and a
> > > rather large lobster, churning his words, and suddenly, just because
> > > he's mentioned frozen water, hordes of pork roasters come at him with
> > > ice picks. How much justice is there in that, I ask you? About as
> > > much as you'd get from a blind barman in a New England nunnery.
> > > Maybe less. Bloody minded is what I call it, just plain
> > > straightforward bloody minded, like a Yorkshire pig with a hankering
> > > for truffles, setting off for France, and finding after the
> > > Strindberg roundabout--avoid that one on any bank holiday weekend is
> > > my bit of free advice-- and turning left at Helium (if you see signs
> > > for Misery, you've gone too far), carrying on past McGonagall's
> > > Auction (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/
> > > tayside_and_central/7402920.stm.) that he's actually got no idea
> > > where France is. That's not how we go about life down at the Salt
> > > Lake Masonic. Show me money and I'll show you people with a lot more
> > > sense than pigs, people who know their ice cubes from their branches,
> > > people who can tell you there's not an ounce of difference between
> > > cold water out of a stream and frozen water from the freezer. Water
> > > is water and work is work and that's all I can compress into a
> > > postcard-sized rant, so that's all there is to it.
> > >
> > >
> > > David Ritchie
> > > taking it home in
> > > Portland, Oregon
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