On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 FRIEDA2133 at aol.com wrote: > Today's cooking extract is from Emperor Tortaalik I in Dragaera City. > > "His Majesty looked down at his plate, where a few lonely fish > bones were floating in a sea of butter and lemon. He wiped his > lips on his sleeve" > > Five Hundred Years After, Chapter the Eighth, page 100 AFB, but the booksearch yields: "a few lonely fish bones were floating (belly up, perhaps) in a sea of butter and lemon. He then wiped his lips on his sleeve..." I wonder if the scanner added a few garnishes... At "belly up" I'm suddenly in Gormenghast.