The smug deprivations of vegetarianism
21st February 2006
Yeah, so the best line in the whole post is the title, and it’s not even mine. It’s from Alfina the Vague, the author of Zemblan Grammar. She’s not writing about photography, or technology, or world events, or even about people I know. But that doesn’t matter because she’s always coming up with glorious combinations of words. Just say it out loud: “the smug deprivations of vegetarianism.” Isn’t that marvelous? Doesn’t that kind of command of sounds — and especially the way the words work in combination but fall apart individually — belong in poetry?