[Vwoolf] how to cook fish like Virginia Woolf

[Harish Trivedi]

Dear Anne

This is wonderful. But we in India have always believed that those who seek
knowledge (as the audience in AROOO presumably did) need not eat or sleep
too well  -- and had better not, in fact. *Eat, Pray, Love, *as in the
title of that best-selling Western desideratum, sounds all wrong to us, if
only because Pray should be the final stop and not Love. (It echoes
Eliot's gratuitous/ significant re-ordering of the three Da's in WL 5.)

A recent Hindi novel evokes in its title an ancient Sanskrit verse on how a
true student/scholar should lead his life: eat little, leave home to go far
way, be ever busy and questing as a crow, sleep like a dog in short
snatches, and be focused like a heron (-- on catching fish!)

So, apparently, both these paths lead to the same goal. Catch and enjoy
your fish -- while ye may! And let the sole/soul "shine."

Best.
Harish       ​

On 12 June 2015 at 21:50, Anne Fernald <fernald at fordham.edu> wrote:

> A fun recipe inspired by the cream-coated sole in *A Room of One's Own*.
>
> After all, one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not
> dined well.
>
> https://food52.com/blog/13170-how-to-cook-fish-like-virginia-woolf#_=_
>
> --
> Anne E. Fernald
> <http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/english/faculty/english_faculty/anne_fernald_28537.asp>
> President of the Faculty Senate
> Fordham University
> fernald at fordham.edu
>
> *Mrs. Dalloway, now available from Cambridge UP*
> <http://www.cambridge.org/9781107028784>
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>
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