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Marcel Reading A Finely Sliced Platter of Parma Ham

Thalia: The mashing does have a truly disturbing affect on the extremities, unless that is your own 'painterly' touching up. Reading bacon, ham or gammon might be a kind of auguristic activity, or is that tea-leaves?

 

Ruin: Those fatty tributaries are mesmerising, perhaps more dependable than tea-slops. Nope, it's all chance, that disturbance you have rightly referred to.

 

It's an original oil on canvas, a rumoured, unsigned, mid-career throwback F. Bacon (disputed).

 

De Selby mentioned it in his (now sadly lost) authoritative treatise: 'On Augury and Ham-fistedness' (1954-ish).

 

Yes, I can see that one of the side-effects of 'Parma Ham Divining' is that one can become ham-fisted. It seems to be becoming endemic too, if the evidence of A.I. is anything to go by.

 

I believe that it was the first recording (in what we call the 'Fine Arts') of three-fingeredness relative to ham-reading. I could, of course, be wrong.

 

Either way, It isn't over until the indeterminate-gender personage of corporeally-generous proportions ululates.

 

{Coming Soon: Reading a Full-Irish (with Blood Pudding) Breakfast}

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Uploaded on February 12, 2025