MDDM Ch. 75 The Topick of Mutton

[Dave Monroe]

   "In the Hold were hundreds of Lamb carcasses,--"
(M&D, Ch. 75, p. 735)

   "Fool.  Here were the Representatives of ev'ry
sheep he had ever spoken ill of,-- and now he was at
their Mercy.  But they are dead, he told himself. 
Aye, but not only dead.  Here was a category beyond
Dead, in its pointless Humiliation, its superfluous
Defeat,-- stripp'd, the naked faces bruis'd and cut by
the repeated battering of the others in this, their
final Flock ..." (M&D, Ch. 75, p. 736)

"'I noted too a puzzling air of Jollification, some of
it directed at me.  "How is it in there?" one of them
ask'd, with what, upon Shore, would certainly've been
taken as an insinuating Leer.  Not "How was it,"--
which is odd enough, no, what this Sailor distinctly
said-- '
   "'Why aye, Mason, tha see it, don't tha ...? they
were Sailors...?  'Tis probably a standard practice,
upon those Meat-Voyages...?  Something a foremost
Swab, in his Day's unrelenting bleakness, might have
to look forward to, when the Midnight Hour creeps
'round...?'"
   "'What.--- Do you mean,-- Oh, Dixon, really.'"
(M&D, Ch. 75, p. 736)

"''Twas the Food Riots,--'" (M&D, Ch. 75, p. 737)

"'The Captain allow'd me to shelter in his Quarters,
till iut should be safe to emerge,-- proving meantime
an engaging conversationalist, particularly upon the
Topick of Mutton, as to which he seem'd most well
inform'd, and even strangely...affectionate,-- '"
(M&D, Ch. 75, p. 737)


"Lamb carcasses"

26 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and
saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the
sin of the world.

http://www.htmlbible.com/kjv30/B43C001.htm

1 Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him. 
 
2 And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put
it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, 
 
3 And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him
with their hands 

4 Pilate therefore went forth again, and saith unto
them, Behold, I bring him forth to you, that ye may
know that I find no fault in him.
 
5 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns,
and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them,
Behold the man!
 
6 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw
him, they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.
Pilate saith unto them, Take ye him, and crucify him:
for I find no fault in him.
 
7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law
he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of
God.

[...]

16 Then delivered he him therefore unto them to be
crucified. And they took Jesus, and led him away.
 
17 And he bearing his cross went forth into a place
called the place of a skull, which is called in the
Hebrew Golgotha: 
 
18 Where they crucified him, and two other with him,
on either side one, and Jesus in the midst. 
 
[...]
 
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus,
took his garments, and made four parts, to every
soldier a part; and also his coat: now the coat was
without seam, woven from the top throughout.

http://www.htmlbible.com/kjv30/B43C019.htm


Food Riots

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRcorn.htm

http://www.thedorsetpage.com/history/Captain_Swing/Captain_Swing.htm

http://www.idler.co.uk/html/library/riots3.html


"when the Midnight Hour creeps 'round"

http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/i/in_the_midnight_hour_wilson_pickett.html

http://members.lycos.co.uk/lambretta/midnight.htm


"'strangely...affectionate,-- '"

>From Midas Dekkers, Dearest Pet: On Bestiality, trans.
Paul Vincent (New York: Verso, 2000), "Introduction:
Letting Ourselvces Go," pp. 1-3 ...

"Sex is something that by definition you have with
another being, whether of the same or a different sex,
somone of the same race or a more exotic choice. 
Every sexual encounter is a breaking of bounds, an
intrusion into an alien realm, every sexual encounter
reatins a whiff of bestiality.  What use is the other
person if they are not different?  You find true
satisfaction only when you let yourself go." (p. 3)

Main Entry: bes·ti·al·i·ty  
Pronunciation: "bes-chE-'a-l&-tE, "besh-, "bEs-,
"bEsh-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
Date: 14th century
1 : the condition or status of a lower animal
2 : display or gratification of bestial traits or
impulses
3 : sexual relations between a human being and a lower
animal

Main Entry: nec·ro·phil·ia 
Pronunciation: "ne-kr&-'fi-lE-&
Function: noun
Etymology: New Latin
Date: 1892
: obsession with and usually erotic interest in or
stimulation by corpses

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

I'll leave it to y'all to find yr own illustrative
hyperlinks this time 'round, so ...

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