Cabinet of Dr. Culinary
Lumpen Orientalism gathers the fragments of a lost civilization, the decaying parts of a breathing animal _ the Middle East. Named after a term suggested by China Miéville, Lumpen Orientalism captures an anomalous fascination with the Middle East and Asia in a similar way to the mongrel visions of Gilles Deleuze, H. P. Lovecraft, Gaëtan Clérambault and William Beckford in order to tackle this enigmatic monstrosity.
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I'll take one jar of sheep's brains and a side order of the shiny-looking stuff.
"Its mouth was some eighty meters in diameter . . . crystal teeth with curved shape of crysknives glinting around the rim . . . the bellows breath of cinnamon, subtle aldehydes . . . acids" (Dune)
Recommended: Paul Freedman's book on spices.
Spice: both genus and species!
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