Nowadays, folks who have been “always civilized” turn up their noses at such a feast, especially my daughters, who consider it one of their father’s most disgusting uncivilized indulgences
If rereading novels in old age that were read in boyhood indicates regression into second childhood, I’m headed that way. Before my tenth birthday, I read everything Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote, especially the Tarzan novels. I even memorized the special language for communicating with jungle beasts taught to Tarzan by the gorillas that raised him, and preferred it to English, which drove my mother batty.
