Stephen Le Quotes

The Two Palm Worms Are Brought In Separate Bowls, Still Alive, Wriggling Fiercely In A Bath Of Turpentine-colored Fish Sauce With A Few Slivers Of Chili. The Glossy Brown Heads Of The Grubs, The Larvae Of A Weevil That Infests Palm Trees, Glisten Like Popcorn Seeds; The Wriggling Abdomens Have Pale Rubbery Ridges. The Owner Of The Restaurant, Chubby And Affable, Comes Out To Instruct Nhat And Me: We Are To Grasp The Heads, Pull Off The Fat White Bodies With Our Teeth, And Discard The Heads, Taking Care That The Larvae Do Not Nip Our Tongues With Their Formidable Pincers In The Process. Biting Down On Squirming Larvae Seems Barbaric, But My Brain Is Starting To Swim Due To Hunger, And The Fish Sauce Is Muskily Aromatic. How Bad Could Their Fat Glistening Bodies Taste? And Am I Not A Direct Descendant Of Insectivores, Albeit Roughly 100 Million Years Removed? I

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