She appeareth
Old news, I know, but I love this story. Basically this lady makes a toasted cheese sandwich. After taking a bite, she sees that the Virgin Mary has appeared to her on the sandwich. Naturally she doesn't eat the rest, and miraculously, the toast doesn't rot or mold for 10 years. At which point it occurs to her, hey, maybe I can sell this thing. So she does, on eBay, and next thing you know it's Big International News.
I can't seem to get the picture upload to work, but here's the link:
$28,000 Toast
What can I say? Food plays a very important role in our lives, bordering on the spiritual. You may laugh, but at the very least it's an oft-used metaphor -- and think about the expression "keeping body and soul together" -- if it weren't for food our pour little soul would be separated from our body and have to float around all, you know, disembodied and stuff... Ahem. Just trying to get back to the High Brow and Academic tone to which I allegedly aspired back when I started this blog. You know, several days ago.
I can't seem to get the picture upload to work, but here's the link:
$28,000 Toast
What can I say? Food plays a very important role in our lives, bordering on the spiritual. You may laugh, but at the very least it's an oft-used metaphor -- and think about the expression "keeping body and soul together" -- if it weren't for food our pour little soul would be separated from our body and have to float around all, you know, disembodied and stuff... Ahem. Just trying to get back to the High Brow and Academic tone to which I allegedly aspired back when I started this blog. You know, several days ago.
posted by AlleyCat | 7:51 PM
3 Comments:
why do people think they know what mary looked like anyway? how do they know that woman is not, say, the alleycat?
i secretly hope that the sandwich gets dropped onto the ground and eaten by squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, who would then grow demonstratively ill from it, bringing up lots of opportunities for plays on words and ideas and causing great spiritual unrest in the hearts of the those who had believed in the sandwich, possibly driving them to a true knowledge of Christ and away from believing in the powers of food objects with imagined pictures of His mom on them.
is that mean of me?
Does your 'secret hope' still count as secret when posted on a publicly visible, downloadable, findable and retrievable weblog?
And how do we define 'mean', whether in respect of the purchaser, owner and possibly although not demonstrably believer in said sandwich (whose economic interest in such can be assumed to be rendered worthless upon consumption of such by such roving beasties as described in your Comment), or in respect of all those who would in the scenario described by you come to the Truth as indicated by you and who would additionally not suffer such economic loss as assumed by me in the case of the purchaser, owner, etc. etc. etc.?
1. no, it is no longer secret. that is the whole reason for my having included that little subtle joke. perhaps overly subtle it was.
2. we may define "mean" however we please, from the point of view of the animals, the followers of the sandwich, the owner of the sandwich, or the sandwich itself. that's the beauty of blog land.
after all, how often does one have the opportunity to empathize with food?
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