Monday, February 23, 2009

First Review, Cabbage, And Keats

It is very good of Tony Williams to give The Opposite of Cabbage its first review. Thanks Tony!

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The book is now on the Salt home page, as is Andrew Philip’s The Ambulance Box. You can find Andy beneath Vincent de Souza. I am below Keats, which is certainly the place for me, although I shouldn’t really be within touching distance:

Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane
In some untrodden region of the mind,
Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain,
Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind

(from Ode to Psyche)

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Useless Cabbage Fact no. 1:

Did you know that Cato the Elder praised the humble cabbage’s health-giving properties and declared it to be ‘the first of all vegetables’?