NATURAL SAVAGERY

Having survived a bad bout of pneumonia five or six months ago, he's now having nose-bleeds. The tissues up there are thin and dried out. And he looks a little more fragile than before. But he's got his dander mostly back, and is feisty again. So, given that he's past eighty, he's made a miraculous recovery. Plus he mentioned some lovely chyü sau (豬手 "hog knuckles") he saw the other day, regretfully, because he didn't order a plate.
So I can probably guess where he's having dinner this evening.

All old men should sometimes have some pig's trotters. Good for skin and bones.
And it probably lubricates the dessicated nasal tissues too.
Also, they're good for puerperal women.
Per traditional belief.


My lunch today had nothing to do with any of that. It was, however good for the tissues. The heat yesterday having left me limp and drained. Imagine a sudden rain storm drenching the cracked soil of the desert, revitalizing the tinder-dry fibres of whatever trees and cacti dot the landscape. It hits at twilight, bringing coolness and welcome relief. The rattlesnakes and jack rabbits emerge from their holes and gambol joyously before devouring each other.

Look, I don't know what exactly goes on in nature, okay?
There could be carnivorous leporids.
It's their choice.

Once the juvenile jack rabbit erupts violently from the chest of the host human which its mother face-hugged, it must make a decision on whether it is vegetarianly inclined, will become a savage carnivore, or subsist entirely on minerals and tofu.

It's something intensely personal, you shouldn't judge.
Both a lifestyle, and survival of the fattest.
Not all leporids are strict vegans.
Don't force them.


Anyhow, I'm glad to see him back among the living, no longer a zombie seeking out a warm rock in the sunlight on which to rest and blink his eyes while sucking up the heat.


Tune in next week for more biology lessons: how chocolate soufflé is murder.
All those big-headed embryos encased in calcium carbonate!
Only some of them chocolate flavoured.
The others just spam.



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