It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.
—Joseph Heller
Recent food
Tuesday I made sumac-and-parsley tilapia with garden cabbage

and
lemon custard cakes.

Yesterday I made
onion rings (this recipe was not at
all what I was looking for)

and
chocolate chip cookies. (An experimental result indicates that adding marshmallows to chocolate chip cookies is a
bad idea.)

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