“We seek to detain sweetness. That is why so many sweets are designed to be held in the mouth - or, in a perverse reversal of the perversity of the sweet, to melt, yearningly and disappointingly on the tongue. Sweetness is identified with the excess of taste over aliment, with prolonging itself. In learning how to make sweetness last, children learn on their tongues the lesson of deferment upon which all cultural life is based.”

Dejligt citat blandt flere i et transcript fra et BBC-program om slik og magi.”Sweets are of course beyond words”, skriver de, “they encourage the production of an alternative language, one made up of slurps and slobbers, suckings, dribbles, pops and crunches; all of this an oozing, elemental anti-language that is most of the time kept inaudible, or disciplined into speech.”

Oooooooozing. Det er et sindssygt godt ord. Det lyder som fornemmelsen af salmiakpulveret der siver ud af et tyrkisk peber-bolsje og ud på tungen. Mm.

(krydspostet fra emme.dk)