NPPF Canto 1 "that golden paste!"

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 21:45, Scott Badger wrote:
> Rob:
> 
> >         No free man needs a God; but was I free?
> >         How fully I felt nature glued to me
> >         And how my childish palate loved the taste
> >         Half-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!
> >                                         (101-5)
> >
> > I must admit I wasn't convinced by Keith's ("shocking"!) incest with Aunt
> > Maud theory, but there are questions about what in heck Shade's
> > referring to
> > with his description of the odd mixture of flavours here.
> 
> Though clearly lacking the prurient spunk of Keith's shocking screen-play, I
> read "golden paste" as simply the mixture of honey and the wax of the
> honeycomb, that Shade might have sampled, stickily, directly from a hive.
> Does unprocessed honey have a more "gamey" taste that might be likened to
> fish? Is there a bee-keeper in the house?


Yes, as a matter of fact, there (virtually) is . . .

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 "No free man needs a God; but was
> I free? / How I felt nature glued to me" might then set free will against
> either instinct ("nature glued to me") or a controlling God (hive-mind). The
> "childish palate" being less refined, or REASONed.
> 
> Scott Badger
> 
> 

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