"The Debt to Pleasure"

[fiefoe]

This is early in the book yet, but based on elliptical comments Tarquin lets drop, I'm hoping that some delicious secrets will be revealed later on. He and his family certainly seem capable of bedevilment.

• If it is not possible to diminish the magic of rising yeast then perhaps there are one or two corners of poetry left in a world that at times seems depleted and diminished by explanation.
  
• ... eternal, undeclared, like all the hardest fought wars - those between the gifted and the ordinary, the old and the young, the short and the rest
  
• You will of course not be able to do that if you have been following this recipe without reading it through in advance. Let that be a lesson to you.
• In all memory there is a degree of fallenness; we are all exiles from our own pasts, just as, on looking up from a book, we discover anew our banishment from the bright worlds of imagination and fantasy.
• The gleaming banks of seafood are like certain politicians in that they manage to be impressive without necessarily inspiring absolute confidence.
  
• ...disturbing the perceived with a memory of what can no longer be perceived
• To be bored is not the same thing as to suffer from ennui. The condition of feeling einsam is not identical with being lonely, and gemütlichkeit is to be distinguished from comfiness.
  

Allusions:  neiges d'antan ("I can only give you this refrain:/ Where are the snows of yester-year?"), Bede, Dr. Crippen.