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[wispfox]

A quote I have always loved from Mercedes Lackey's Tayledras (part of her Valdemar books) is "Zhai'helleva, ashke" - or, "Wind to thy wings, beloved". Never before have I known anyone it felt right to say it to. Even if I did feel compelled to modify it a little.


A random thing I noticed a bit ago (last Sunday, I believe), and was reminded of tonight. Of all the five physical senses, taste is the only one from which I have never had an overwhelmingly pleasant experience. I like some foods, yes, but I generally eat to not be hungry. This confuses people.


OK, I'm seriously babbling and tired, and need to get up to go to Rhode Island tomorrow to visit family members. So, I sleep.

And I have hope.

Comments

[missdimple.livejournal.com]

The taste thing doesn't confuse me at all as someone who has (in recent memory) lost my sense of taste and smell. Both have mostly returned (yesterday I smelled popcorn again as buttery popcorn for the first time since December 2001). Having lost (and regained) it, but having it not return as strongly, I really understand that we don't all experience the world in the same way. Our senses really interpret this place as similar (sometimes), but not identically. I often think it would be a mindblowing experience to be able to experience the world as someone else just to see what an alternative is like. (I guess in some ways, my experience did just that.)

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Having lost (and regained) it, but having it not return as strongly, I really understand that we don't all experience the world in the same way.

True! But it appears that the vast majority of the people I know _do_ have a pretty strong and interesting sense of taste, so my lack of strong interest in much for food confuses them.

But yeah, you have many good points. :)

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

a pretty strong and interesting sense of taste

Yes and no. What I like, I like. But I can't tolerate most spicy foods... with the exclusion of garlic.

Very picky, I am.

garlic

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

garlic isn't a spice. It's a staple...

Re: garlic

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Indeeed.

As paultopia said in this comment (http://www.livejournal.com/community/single_n_sod_it/43827.html?thread=895283#t895283):

*purring* garliccccc.... cheeeeesssseeeee.... garliccccc.... cheeeeesssseeeee.... musstt haavvee... garliccccc.... cheeeeesssseeeee.... and lets not forget marinara.

Mmmm, now I'm hungry. :-P