Word: coots
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...also liked to dine off heron, coot en cocotte, boar and sautéed squirrel ("An exquisite taste"). At times a puckish humor overcame Lautrec. His recipe for leg of lamb, for instance, required "a glacier like the Wildstrubel. Kill a young lamb from the high Alps at around 3,000 meters, during September. Cut out the leg and let it hang for three or four weeks. It should be eaten raw with horse-radish...
...chock-full of Innocence. A kind of satanic hotelier takes him in tow and dispatches him, like one of nature's naivest bellboys, to the fetid rooms of earthly existence. Along the way, there is a series of symbolic betrayals: by friendship (in the person of an ancient coot in a Confederate uniform); by wealth (in the form of an alcoholic hag and her fluttery entourage of butterfly boys); by art (as represented by a seedy writer-painter couple); and by sex in the nymphomaniacal guise of a torrid pop-swinger (Jennifer West). They kill Malcolm with corruption...