I love overthinking this, and then throw it away.
Did you know that Salvador Dalí created/illustrated a cookbook?! Titled, Les Diners de Gala (1973), the book is divided into 12 chapters filled with recipes incorporating the most fantastic and surreal combinations of ingredients. One of my favorites is the Casanova Cocktail, and Dalí’s recipe for this concoction is as follows:
CASANOVA COCKTAIL The juice of 1 orange 1 tablespoon bitters (Campari) 1 teaspoon ginger 4 tablespoons brandy 2 tablespoons old brandy (Vielle Cure) 1 pinch Cayenne pepper. This is quite appropriate when circumstances such as exhaustion, overwork or simply excess of sobriety are calling for a pick-me-up. Here is a well-tested recipe to fit the bill. Let us stress another advantage of this particular pep-up concoction is that one doesn’t have to make the sour face that usually accompanies the absorption of a remedy.
At the bottom of a glass, combine pepper and ginger. Pour the bitters on top, then brandy and “Vielle Cure.” Refrigerate or even put in the freezer. Thirty minutes later, remove from the freezer and stir the juice of the orange into the chilled glass. Drink… and wait for the effect. It is rather speedy.”
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Okay - math - right?
If your mom was 20 when she bore you, you are 20 years younger than your mom. Right when you were born, she was like infinity times older than you. But then when you are 10, she is now 30. And she is only 3 times older than you. Then 10 years later you are 20, and she is 40, she is only 2 times older than you. Which means while you are always 20 years apart, you are actually decreasing the age gap.
When you are 30 she is 50 = 5/3rds
When you are 40 she is 60 = 1.5
When you are 50 she is 70 = 7/5ths
When you are 100 she is 120= 1.2
When you return to dust and fossils at 1000 she is 1020 = 1.02
Which means you’ll always be 20 years apart, but the percentage of difference is a horizontal asymptote at 1. Epiphany.
You deserve to be more than medicine for someone’s loneliness.
maxwelldpoetry, writing prompt #65: write a ten-word-story (via wnq-astrology)
Music’s kiss
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