Posted on 07/24/2022 6:08:16 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
Shouldn’t the headline read WHO’S for dinner?
Good catch.
You know you’re in trouble when you ask for a menu, and they hand you a mirror.
posters who only post a smidgen of the 300 words normally allowed for excerpts, and do not try to provide the substance of the article in that excerpt - and rely on Twitter as primary sources - are part of the problem.
As to your conclusion, actually I think the article is reporting on a phenomenon and implicitly asking why Cannibalism is unthinkable. Below is a 204 word (counted here) excerpt, plus the image:
An image came to Chelsea G. Summers...and his liver served Tuscan style, on toast...That figment of her twisted imagination is what prompted Ms. Summers to write her novel, “A Certain Hunger,” about a restaurant critic with a taste for (male) human flesh.
Turns out, cannibalism has a time and a place. In the pages of some recent stomach-churning books, and on television and film screens, Ms. Summers and others suggest that that time is now....
The creator was horrified by her own monster. Publishers may have been, too. When Ms. Summers, who uses a pseudonym, was shopping the book around in 2018, it was rejected more than 20 times before Audible and the Unnamed Press made an offer...
cannibalism has occurred around the world throughout history, lending these fictional tales a queasy whiff of “what if?”
As to what may be fueling the desire for cannibalism stories today, Ms. Lyle, the “Yellowjackets” co-creator, said, “I think that we’re obviously in a very strange moment.” She listed the pandemic, climate change, school shootings and years of political cacophony as possible factors.
“I feel like the unthinkable has become the thinkable,” Ms. Lyle said, “and cannibalism is very much squarely in that category of the unthinkable.”
Britannica:
1. cannibalism, also called anthropophagy, eating of human flesh by humans.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/cannibalism-human-behaviour Dictionary.com:
1. the eating of human flesh by another human being.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/
But I'm sure, as you said, the NY Times only meant the article to be about how to become a vegan.
I’m sure the NY Time didn’t mean actual “cannibalism” - as stated in the headline - and as defined by Dictionary.com and Britannica.com as the:
“eating of human flesh by humans.” (Britannica.com)
“the eating of human flesh by another human being” (Dictionary.com)
They were just telling us we should all switch to a vegan diet - and that the word “cannibalism” doesn’t mean the “eating of human flesh by another human” at all.
Not a misleading headline at all, no, not at all.
It’s rare to run across Flanders & Swann fans anywhere,
When ever I am in a thrift shop I look for old comedy records. There is a lot of stuff out there that is roll on the ground funny but will never be available in any other medium because it does not fit with their sensibilities.
“In the Bath” is still my favorite.
It works on two levels.
Not to mention “Have Some Madeira, My Dear.”
"I left him to his singing
Cycled home without a pause/
Never tell a man the truth/
About the one that he adores!"
True wisdom there!
Except that I did not say that, but is "reporting on a phenomenon and implicitly asking why Cannibalism is unthinkable." And as I could have added, thus implicitly challenging that premise.
Yep. Cannibalism will destroy a brain. The human body will not tolerate the human flesh. Cooked or raw.
IIRC correctly, the climate in the location of the movie was swelteringly hot, and the common people had no access to air conditioning except for the entrance to the Soylent processing centers. It was where you went when you had had enough.
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