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Then there is the uncanny business of the truffle that somehow gains weight between leaving the ground and arriving on the scales. It could be that it has been gift wrapped in an extra coating of earth. On the other hand, it could be that a heavier substance altogether has found its way inside the truffle itself—invisible until, in mid-slice, your

When food is unavailable, after about three days the liver begins to use body fat to create chemicals called ketones.

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It isn’t drinking that makes a drunkard. I had drunk for years, enthusiastically, and with pleasure, when I wanted to. Then something snapped in me, and I lost control. I began to have to have it when I didn’t want it. I couldn’t stop when I wanted to. Instead of being a pleasure any more, it was just too bad. I wasn’t here because I drank a lot …

Spanish physician Arnold of Villanova knew that in the thirteenth century. Pope Innocent VIII ate the powdered brains of young boys and drank their blood. In medieval England, the flesh of hanged prisoners was considered a delicacy. But Em is fading. He knows

To ensure that the pigs can’t run away, farmers in northern New Guinea slice off a chunk of each pig’s nose. This causes severe pain whenever the pig tries to sniff. Since the pigs cannot find food or even find their way around without sniffing, this mutilation makes them completely dependent on their human owners.

The Evergreen Review first published Rechy’s and Selby’s writing; and Olympia Press’ Travelers Companion series published Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and The Ticket that Exploded, William Talsman’s The Gaudy Image, and Parker Tyler and Charles Henri Ford’s notorious underground classic The Young and the Evil, as well as Jean Cocteau’s The White Paper, O